Word: quo
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...enigma. Conant seeks, he says, to replace the present method of training teachers with a program of free enterprise; what he actually proposes is a new orthodoxy. One reason the book has failed to arouse the controversy Conant expected is that both supporters and critics of the status quo are still trying to figure out what it means...
...guerrillas would agree to a cease fire contingent upon provision for internationally supervised elections (and their propaganda supports this) American withdrawal of military aid would force Diem either to accept the elections or to leave. In any case this possibility should be at least explored. The status quo is intolerable...
...Thomas Balogh, 57, are both Hungarian-born and are known as "those evil Hungarians," nicknamed respectively "Buda" and "Pest." Balogh, a mercurial left-wing Oxford economist, near neighbor of Wilson in suburban Hampstead, has long been the dominant influence in his economic thinking. As a quid pro quo for restrictions on wage raises, Buda and Pest have convinced Wilson that he needs control over corporate profits and dividends and a tax on capital. Officially, Labor intends only to nationalize the trucking industry and the private sector of steel, but Wilson reserves the right to set up competitive, state-owned plants...
...Status Quo Vote. Boston's critics clamor for lively innovations, but standardized guides still rule the classrooms. A Ford Foundation project hopes to start upgrading a few have-not schools, but nearby Harvard is given almost no chance to help. Not until last year were a handful of Harvard student teachers even allowed to practice in Boston. "There is no place in the country where a graduate school of education has had less influence on a city school system," says Harvard Education Professor Herold Hunt...
...there is- a fact demonstrated by 250 delegates of the California Federation of Young Democrats, who met in convention at San Diego. They came up with a set of resolutions urging that the U.S. should: 1) recognize East Germany and "the existing status quo of a divided Germany; 2) reopen normal diplomatic and trade relations with Castro's Communist Cuba; 3) open diplomatic relations with Red China; and 4) denounce the Diem government in South Viet Nam as a "reactionary dictatorship," gradually pull out all U.S. troops and cut off all U.S. financial help...