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...begun inviting companies to locate in "the city that saved itself." Bids are soon to be let on a $24 million convention center. The local Chamber of Commerce is planning a five-year marketing strategy to create new high-technology jobs. Says Moses: "This was really a status quo community for the past two decades. We've got to change. We're trying to do something about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tales off Ten Cities | 1/31/1983 | See Source »

...category all by itself is "real world." The hackers define this with disdain as "the location of non-programmers" and "the location of the status quo." -By Otto Friedrich

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Glork! A Glossary for Gweeps | 1/3/1983 | See Source »

...activists. But a majority of the evangelical and fundamentalist missionaries either sympathize with rightist regimes or accept the status quo and insist that spiritual conversion, not political action, is the true work of the Lord...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Missionary | 12/27/1982 | See Source »

...impatience with mainstream Democratic politics to the suffering of the non-white and the destitute. In its 1962 manifesto, The Port Huron Statement, SDS zeroed in on the links between the corporate world, the government and the university which were blamed for blocking fundamental deviation from the status quo. Faced with the opportunity to channel its energy into opposition to the quietly growing U.S. commitment in Southeast Asia, SDS consciously opted to maintain a multi-issue stance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Roots of Rage | 12/3/1982 | See Source »

...report discussing sexual harassment, issued last week by an unusual joint committee of Harvard Overseers and Radcliffe Trustees, struck a middle ground between urging all of the broad policy reforms members of the Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS) had lobbied for, and firmly supporting the status quo...

Author: By Adam S. Cohen, | Title: Another Voice On Harassment | 10/30/1982 | See Source »

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