Word: quos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...world's richest nation and its single biggest polluter -- has stood in the way of progress on many of the most closely watched summit issues. While senior officials held briefings painting the Bush Administration as pro-environment, U.S. delegates backed the status quo on one topic after another, insisting over and over that "the American life-style is not up for negotiation...
...media and American universities from within, have increasingly taken potshots at these institutions from the outside. In this way, although conservatives have raised the level of discourse about the roles of these institutions, they have also succeeded in excluding themselves from position in which they could change the status quo...
Although we are not responsible for the subordinate position we occupy in this society, most Blacks are willing to solve their own problems. However, we cannot uplift ourselves when we are constantly affected by outside influences that effectively maintain the status quo, including the infusion of drugs and guns, severely underfunded and inferior schools, police brutality and general disrespect...
...election-year opportunism. After working for two years with Congress to pass new laws regulating air pollution, establishing rights for disabled Americans and setting forth revised guidelines on civil rights, Bush now criticizes the regulations that have resulted from those measures. After three years of defending the status quo, he is trying to recast himself as an agent of change. Asked two weeks ago why he was making such an issue of welfare reform, an area he has ignored since 1987, Bush's reply was breathtakingly transparent: "I think the politics drives some things...
Auto-industry critics have long complained that manufacturers, slavishly wedded to the status quo, have never given electric cars a chance. No longer. Chrysler says it will start rolling out electric-powered minivans this fall. Anyone wishing to own the first on the block must be prepared to shell out as much as $125,000, but utility companies are expected to buy the entire production...