Word: quos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...There are not two people more mismatched," says a top executive. In Ross, he maintains, "you have a dreamer and a visionary, a plunger and schemer"; in Nicholas "a guy who's small and risk averse. You could hardly get a yes out of him. He loved the status quo." While Ross is generally described as a charmer, Nicholas "is not a likable guy," says a director. Some executives and directors had the impression Nicholas was in over his head, knew it and had grown afraid...
...Washington. They had appealing intensity, and they were, in their two strange ways, both fresh characters in a process Americans have come to believe is hopelessly phony. "When you're bleeding," says University of New Hampshire political scientist Robert Craig, "of course you are sick of the status quo. There is a broad undercurrent epitomized by two-income families who realize they are not going to make it. People are really afraid. If they miss just one paycheck, they will lose the home and the car. It's that close...
Even after the New Hampshire debacle, though, status quo politics still rule at the White House...
...SEEN IT ALL BEFORE. A half-crazed guy full of charisma tells a bunch of miserable folks he's the Messiah. It sounds great and the status quo is terrible, so a lot of people go along with it. Shabbetai Zvi. Jacob Frank. These fakers had a hell of a time pulling the wool over everyone's eyes in the 17th and 18th centuries...
...succeeded by leaders who realize that "economic reform without political reform is ultimately unsustainable." Arabs and Israelis, says Nixon, will go on hating each other no matter what happens; the only thing that has ever been able to move them toward peace has been a belief that "the status quo was more painful than a potential compromise." But that very consideration offers ground for hope, since the U.S. has "the leverage to make the status quo more painful than a proposed settlement...