Word: quos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...suggest that all human existence is an improvisatory rehearsal for some grand opening night that may never arrive. Panic is the universal language. And yet, as Ives shows, rewriting life can produce a happy ending. Destiny may be, as his Trotsky says, "only a capitalist explanation for the status quo," but it can also be a sure thing. As two lovers, rapturous in bed at the beginning (and of course at the end) of another Ives play, Ancient History, dreamily say, If their happiness could be bottled, "the world would be littered with empties...
This is an attractive vision. But honesty compels me to say that if the choice is between the status quo and Clinton or Canada, I take the status quo. The American health system is the best in the world. It has saved the life of people I know, more and more of them as I grow older. I'm not going to dilute it to please some power-tripping bureaucrat who got his law degree when Abbey Road was released...
...Burkhart, a senior purchasing executive delegated by Smith to oversee the creativity groups: "Whenever we used to see a roadblock, we'd hide, duck or find a way to do other things and not get beat up. Now our youngest people are being empowered to challenge the status quo...
...challenge. Do we take the throne of this diseased kingdom? Do we even want it? And if we do, will we hold tight our childhood dreams, those dreams formerly untainted by considerations of salary, power and self advancement? Or will we slip mindlessly into the grips of the status quo? Can we rise to the occasion of these plagued years? Should we have...
...examine this plan as compared to the status quo. First, let us make the assumption that the value of a dining hall meal to us is $7.50--a conservative estimate of the opportunity cost saved by not eating an average meal in the Square. There are three parties to consider in our "society": the student, HUDS and the homeless. By participating in this program we make the following changes per meal: to homeless +$1.50; to student -$7.50; to society -$6. Even though the $6 in the cost of an individual dinner is somewhat fictitious, it becomes very real when...