Word: quos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...status quo in the utility business is tough to shake. "A lot of people don't want to be the first to get their toes in the water," observes William Speicher, a Zurn executive who sits on Otisca's board. Concurs Ted Rosiak, a project manager with Duke Fluor Daniels: "Utilities tend to be very conservative and try not to take a lot of risks." In fact, risk aversion in the utility business is not just a tendency, it has been a way of life. Since 1935 most of the power suppliers in the U.S. had operated a gridwork...
...springy leap of the imagination on the part of Rogers and other Labour masterminds to see their former member as President. But Labour was tired of its minor role in politics. Says Rogers: "The idea was to get a woman of such quality -- her strength challenged the status quo...
...Owners are also looking to cut overhead by revising the 1990 labor agreement. Their main goal: the elimination of salary arbitration. If the players balk, owners may respond with a lockout. Says Jerry Reinsdorf, owner of the Chicago White Sox, one of the most militant club owners: "The status quo cannot continue...
...stumbling block is U.S. insistence that the Russians scrap their entire post-START arsenal of 154 land-based SS-18 missiles, each of which carries 10 warheads. Yeltsin demands as a quid pro quo that the U.S. dismantle its fleet of multiple-warhead Trident submarine-based missiles. After a final meeting with U.S. Secretary of State James Baker, Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev reported "good progress" but added that "the rest will depend on our Presidents...
...destinations and have but one thing in common: they all point to somewhere else. Which is what Perot represents. Since he is the "none of the above" candidate so many seek, wherever Perot intends to go, his starry-eyed supporters are convinced it will be away from the status quo. In the end, that may be enough...