Word: quo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...concrete pillbox in which the status quo is armed and entrenched. On the contrary, a single role of law, the sanctity of contract, has been the vehicle for more explosive and extensive economic change in the world than any other factor. The principle that men must keep bargains is a fundamental of every great legal system the world has ever known...
...both sides, but privately they tended to blame management more. They feel that management is trying to do too much in one contract, that it should settle the wage question now, leave the local work rules until later. Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell rapped labor for holding to "status quo at any price," and reproached management for "attempts to change by the bang of a single gavel working habits built up over many years." A renewal of the strike in January, said Mitchell, is "unthinkable...
...there is no more honorable ambition one can entertain than a career in elective offices," McCormack told the Young Democrats. "And although I am a great believer in the two-party system," he continued, "I feel that the Republican Party is the party of status quo; the Democrats represent progress...
...stance of the U.S. in world affairs merely that of preserver of the status quo? Is U.S. foreign policy enmeshed in illusion, maladroit in method and impotent to achieve its stated ends...
...Gaulle can outmaneuver London and Moscow by putting off the summit meeting as long as possible and, when obliged to attend, by insisting on bargaining terms impossible for the Russians to accept. In other words, by preventing any change in the status quo...