Word: quos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...committees have produced some extremely unpopular decisions, and critics have charged that they merely exist to maintain the status quo, which is slanted against junior faculty...
Both the Afro-Am Department and the Dining Services seemed to have been bogged down in the institutional and structural mire of the status quo. Both have restrictive structures--the tenure system and the repetitive and all-encompassing meal plan--which were effectively prohibiting any sort of substantial change...
...same old story. The people raising objections--the people who will suffer--don't have the power to articulate their opposition fairly. And while the well-to-do say they're sympathetic, they're not going to do anything to change the status quo...
...Time after time, I have found myself considering what sounds correct instead of what sounds right. More often than not, that has meant neutrality, which in turn has meant complicity. My refusal to take a stand for my principles has done nothing more than enforce the status quo...
Pollock points out that members of the movement today are opposed to the entire concept of war, not simply the current military escalation in the Gulf. She says that activists today want to "change the status quo in international relations," and spread the message that "recourse to war is becoming an outdated thing...