Word: quo
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Another problem for the S.P.D. is its reputation, mostly undeserved, for being soft on Communism. Though Schmidt is an outspoken antiCommunist, many Germans are dismayed by what they now feel was the excessive willingness of Brandt to normalize relations with the regimes of Eastern Europe without sufficient quid pro quo...
UNTIL THE ANGOLAN WAR of 1975, Southern Africa had a limited place in the strategic thinking of Secretary of State Henry Kissinger '50. His policy for the region, formulated in 1969, envisaged complete maintenance of the status quo for the white minority regimes, including the Portuguese colonies. But the Portuguese revolution of 1974, and more importantly for cold warrior Kissinger, the successful use of Cuban troops and Soviet arms against American and South African intervention in the Angolan civil war, have forced him to adapt his strategy to the changing realities of Southern Africa. It is in this context that...
...Heflin, 55, is a strapping giant of a man, but he conspicuously avoids throwing his weight around. His background might well have produced a dyed-in-the-cot-ton supporter of the status quo instead of a reformer. Heflins have been in the state for six generations; the judge's late uncle, Cotton Tom Heflin, a populist turned black-baiting U.S. Senator (1920-31), was drummed out of the Democratic Party in 1928 for attacking Presidential Nominee Al Smith as "the Roman candidate." Young Howell went to Birmingham Southern College, served as a Marine officer in World...
Stare's quid pro quo works the other way, too. If a company that has given funds to the department--and he cites Kellogg as one such corporation--requests his time, he will not seek a consulting fee for the department. "The companies that help support the department, I am perfectly willing to try to help them when I can do so in all honesty and without asking for any extra fees. I mean, after all, if a company is giving you $10,000 or $15,000, why try to get a few more pennies out of them...
...organizations, including SftP, to build a movement forcing science to serve the people rather than what he perceives to be the present dominating interests of a scientific elite--motivated by the prospect of Nobel prizes--and a corporate-governmental complex geared toward profit, imperialism, and maintenance of the status quo...