Word: quos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...make use of it. In Israel's case, this machine requires billions of dollars in American aid and subsidies, as well as an economically disruptive draft and reserve service system. The only justification for such an existence is the possibility of achieving some goal beyond simply maintaining the status quo. The goal should be a peaceful and prosperous society; ironically, the force necessary to maintain the status quo only serves to push the logical goal further...
Danowitz said that in the 1992 election year women did well because they were the "candidates of change" in a country that wanted to depart from the status quo...
...those who support the Oslo agreement, even if halfheartedly, the new Declaration of Principles provides the only ladder available to climb out of a status quo both sides have been finding more and more intolerable. The plan comes in two parts: first, a framework for interim Palestinian self-rule on the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip; and second, the agreement, still being negotiated, on mutual recognition and an end to the warfare between Israel and the P.L.O...
Ultimately, Nelson decides that she is too unhappy with the Post's status quo. Unable to create change, she quits, returning to what she considers a less-stressful lifestyle. With such an outcome Volunteer Slavery reads as a cautionary tale about the demands of life in the nation's capital...
Devoted viewers also crave the reassurance of the status quo. It's not just Rumpoles and films of elk that compel many PBS maniacs; rather, they like the sense of belonging to a tweedy club, of feeling urbane by virtue of the TV channel they watch. There are apparently fewer and fewer such people, however: between 1987 and 1992, public TV lost 22% of its prime-time audience, twice the decline of commercial networks...