Word: quos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seat in the U.S. Senate 21 months ago, J. Robert Kerrey has emerged as an intriguing figure in a capital where blunt talk is a scarce commodity that attracts lots of attention. Explains Democratic pollster Harrison Hickman, who has worked for Kerrey: "He isn't caught up in status quo thinking. I don't know if I have seen anyone quite so fearless." There is of course a dissenting view. "He's long on rhetoric," grumbles Scott Matter, former executive director of the Nebraska Republican Party. "Almost like a stage performer. But it's hard to come up with...
...Status quo proponents argue that uneven and often mediocre state regulation is no worse than consistently mediocre federal regulation would be, and that the current furor in Congress has snapped state regulators to attention. But where it's really frightening, and where any crisis, if we get one, is likely to erupt, is in reinsurance, an almost entirely unregulated field of undisclosed relationships crisscrossing national boundaries...
Many educators who had lobbied strenuously with Rome to protect the status quo declared themselves satisfied with the result. Says the Rev. William Byron, president of Catholic University: "Nothing is being rammed down our throats." Because of antidiscrimination laws, the mandate for a majority of Catholic faculty will be "unenforceable," predicts Father Thomas Reese, a member of the Woodstock Theological Center at Georgetown University. Vatican officials too say they aim at "flexibility," not demands imposed from on high...
...economic embargo could ever force Saddam Hussein to retreat from Kuwait may never be known. "Our worst-case scenario," says an Arab diplomat involved in the allies' deliberations, has Saddam acceding to Bush's public demands. But the alliance's true objective has moved beyond restoring the status quo ante to the destruction of Iraq's nuclear, chemical and biological warfare capacities, a goal almost no one believes can be achieved through negotiation. Hence "the logic of war," to borrow Francois Mitterrand's phrase...
...anti-politician cachet that has propelled the cowboy campaign of Clayton Williams, the Republican candidate for Governor in Silber's native state of Texas. Silber, like Williams, is viewed as a populist. A hallmark of populism, from the left or the right, is exploitation of anger against the status quo. "I understood the outrage," Silber said...