Word: quos
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Under the status quo, the names of patients who receive HIV testing are recorded but kept confidential in their private medical files. The costs of these tests, along with similar tests for other viruses, are included in the mandatory health fee paid by every Harvard student...
Traditions die slowly at Harvard. Despite repeated assurances that the University has nothing to do with the final clubs, it is clear that the status quo prevails. The Ad Board has demonstrated that it cannot effectively discipline the final clubs. Until the University assumes responsibility for such things, we can do nothing but look forward to more barbaric, uncensured behavior...
...Americans retirement benefits pegged to their actual contributions. But if the change is to take place, it would be better to have it before the immense claims of retiring baby boomers send the system into shock-and create a huge bloc of pensioners fiercely invested in the status quo. Also before a resentful younger generation, faced with the prospect of giant tax hikes, starts practicing reform with a sledgehammer...
...Social Security really such an untouchable issue? As younger workers become a larger proportion of the electorate, they can be expected to assert their own interest in the matter, which is not the status quo. And it's even possible to hear at least a peep of compromise from the American Association of Retired Persons, the huge lobby that has treated most prior talk about changing Social Security the way the National Rifle Association of America reacts to new gun-control bills. "It's probably true that in the future we're going to have to lower benefits...
...running decidedly against the programs. Senator Phil Gramm and commentator Pat Buchanan call for their abolition. Lamar Alexander opposes preferences based "solely" on race. And Senate majority leader Bob Dole has commissioned congressional hearings with an eye toward major restructuring. Only Republican Senator Arlen Specter largely defends the status quo. On the Democratic side, President Clinton has ignited what amounts to a holy war within his party. Last week moderates like Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut put Clinton on notice that they want reforms as a way to win back the white male voters that Democrats need to have...