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...poverty ignores a crucial "civilian perspective." The result of this defect is that programs which in theory are designed to increase self-reliance and independence, in fact tend to "enervate potential leadership," and to prevent criticism and retard innovation in favor of maintaining vested interests and the status quo...

Author: By Mary L. Wissler, | Title: The Harvard Review | 2/19/1965 | See Source »

...agreement, apparently intended to ensure the status quo, until the University Trustees can meet on the matter, precluded the possibility of a protest issue of the paper, which the Student Congress offered to finance...

Author: By Matt Douglass, | Title: Threatened B.U. Newspaper Granted Freedom in Temporary Compromise | 2/16/1965 | See Source »

...work into" a sick, hate-ridden White society. They will reject the serpent's advice of most Whites, reject a broad-based coalition, and manifest indifferences to any progress less than radical social upheaval. They will resist what they feel are King's efforts to support a new status quo...

Author: By Jacob R. Brackman, | Title: Martin Luther King | 1/13/1965 | See Source »

Freed from the status-quo psychology that Government ownership induced, GAF intends to fight for a larger share of the U.S. chemical market. Werner plans to enlarge laboratory facilities and acquire more of the raw-material facilities on which GAF depends for supplies. GAF's future is as unpredictable as its past might have been if it had remained a free agent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Management: Awakening a Giant | 1/1/1965 | See Source »

...This accomplishment demonstrates one good reason for the existence of a representative student organization which can petition the Masters and achieve changes in the status quo," Ellis said last night. The HCUA is scheduled to be abolished and replaced by two new councils at a meeting tonight...

Author: By Sanford J. Ungar, | Title: Masters Approve Trial Interhouse | 12/10/1964 | See Source »

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