Word: quos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...chorus of complaints is sure to follow the proposal of any "sin tax," designed to increase the price of such products as cigarettes and alcohol. But when the status quo facilitates destructive and often lethal behavior, we don't think such measures are that...
...feeling is that Harvard, in general, tends to be status quo, waiting for tensions to build up and reach a boiling point before dealing with them," McCarthy said, "We want the group to deal with issues before they reach the boiling point...
...story in the former Yugoslavia is also one of appeasement. The CIA warned Bush in 1990 that the nation would split apart. Yet Bush adhered to the status quo, never altering policy to fit the reality of the impending breakup--the same policy Bush pursued in the former Soviet Union until the failed coup forced a change. The U.S. was dangerously silent on Yugoslavia, allowing the Serbs and the communist government to go ahead with plans to keep the country together--even if it meant bloodshed...
...problem of "getting over the hurdle that rent control is a good idea." "I think Cambridge rent control is never good for any city," said Lenore M. Schloming '59, SPOA member and publisher of Eagle's Eye, an anti-rent control newspaper. "Our greatest obstacle is bucking the status quo, and that's always hard...
...having run up against two unfortunate requirements: the need to avoid being too negative and the need to avoid appearing too desperate. In trying to do both, he seemed passive, too unemotional and far too casual, which might be fine if the nation were looking to continue the status quo...