Word: quos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...strategy that would best serve his re-election plans. Should he blame the G.O.P. for cutting popular programs like Medicare, or should he join the budget-balancing campaign by seeking a compromise? For months, Clinton sided with his wife and other liberal advisers in defending the status quo and refusing to propose any alternative plan for balancing the budget. But at just the moment when that approach appeared to be bearing fruit, with Clinton's poll numbers rising and the Republicans beginning to squabble among themselves over tough spending cuts, the President waffled. During a New Hampshire radio interview...
Instead, the executive board convened and decided to carry on with the status quo, council-only elections of officers next semester and to decide on by-laws changes at the first meeting next year. Liston, who engineered both the amendment and the proposed bylaws changes, will graduate this spring...
...nearly impossible to export the First Amendment to countries without deep roots and habits of freedom. In many parts of the world, journalists lack any tradition of objective reporting. But for the most part, the fight against press freedom comes down to politicians protecting themselves and the status quo...
More importantly, publishing a record would also add a valuable element of accountability to the disciplinary process. If its workings are under public scrutiny, the Ad Board will have an additional incentive to be as fair as possible in reviewing cases. Under the status quo, the Ad Board can apply rules inconsistently or treat similar cases in different ways precisely because it operates under the veil of secrecy...
...ordinance would only be "codifying the status quo," Gottlieb added...