Word: quo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...keeping the status quo could have risky consequences. Leaving e-commerce untaxed amounts to a bonanza for Web entrepreneurs and Americans who own computers with Internet access. Within a few years, low-income customers could end up paying a disproportionate share of state and local taxes at stores like Waldeck's Office Supplies. That's if they still exist. Clifford Waldeck says he now makes 7% of his sales through his company's newest feature, its website...
...McCain called Bush's charge a "classic status quo defense of the present system," which politicians have "become addicted to." McCain stressed that he was a "proud conservative Republican...
...While the success of real-people politicos McCain and Bush has been attributed to popular resentment for the status quo, the media is probably as responsible for the phenomenon as anybody. By June the races in both parties appeared to be over. Bush had scared off nearly every serious challenger with his immense war chest, which then stood at $35 million - more than the rest of the Republican presidential candidates combined, and by far the largest pre-election-year sum ever raised by a candidate. Gore, meanwhile, was keeping ahead of Bradley by using the many advantages of the vice...
...fails to recognize that the election of Frank X. Leonard '01 and Katie E. Tenney '01 would enable the reform of the Undergraduate council's mission and purpose that The Crimson has so consistently clamored for. As new members of the council, they represent a break from the status quo which none of the other candidates can offer. Together they have promised to improve the council's credibility with the student body and the administration--and we believe that they are committed to this mission...
...particularly those named Bush. In 1988, George Bush's tactician, Lee Atwater, set up a "fire wall" in South Carolina, building up such support that the Governor's father was able to bury a threat from Bob Dole. And unlike New Hampshire, which takes pride in wobbling the status quo, South Carolina has regularly put a warm arm around the party establishment's candidate and eventual G.O.P. nominee. It saved Dole after Pat Buchanan's surprise New Hampshire victory...