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  • The status-quo agreement is based on claims of historical use, which are only nebulously enforceable.

    Vietnam and the Dragon 2011

  • The status-quo agreement is based on claims of historical use, which are only nebulously enforceable.

    Vietnam and the Dragon 2011

  • McWilliams recognizes that the status-quo of conventional farming is also flawed and suggests that modern food producers have an opportunity to use both, "Judicious and conservative systems of chemical application" that can ultimately produce, "50 percent more food on the same land by 2050."

    Isabel Cowles: Just Food ... and a Few Hard Truths Isabel Cowles 2010

  • But his top rivals, Texas Rep. Ron Paul and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, portrayed him as a status-quo candidate lacking in core convictions.

    Iowa Race Down to the Wire Sara Murray 2012

  • McWilliams recognizes that the status-quo of conventional farming is also flawed and suggests that modern food producers have an opportunity to use both, "Judicious and conservative systems of chemical application" that can ultimately produce, "50 percent more food on the same land by 2050."

    Isabel Cowles: Just Food ... and a Few Hard Truths Isabel Cowles 2010

  • McWilliams recognizes that the status-quo of conventional farming is also flawed and suggests that modern food producers have an opportunity to use both, "Judicious and conservative systems of chemical application" that can ultimately produce, "50 percent more food on the same land by 2050."

    Isabel Cowles: Just Food ... and a Few Hard Truths Isabel Cowles 2010

  • A historic battle for education reform has been won against the status-quo forces, and the tax credit is their instrument of surrender.

    An Alternate Way to School Choice 2012

  • We have facts based on real science, all you have is long debunked pseudo-science paid for by oil companies and other groups interested in preserving the status-quo.

    Think Progress » Bayh Claims ‘There’s A Fighting Chance’ Obama Will Call For A Spending Freeze 2010

  • OPEC officials have said a status-quo result would be to keep output at 30 million barrels a day.

    OPEC Closer to Agreement To Maintain Production Levels James Herron 2011

  • And while Obama stayed silent, equivocated and pre-emptively compromised away the rights of my children, gay children, Latino children, and black children, status-quo politicians in leadership, like Chris Van Hollen, my own Congressman, gave away the store by supporting people like Bart Stupak and undermining those like Jennifer Brunner.

    Jodi Jacobson: Why a Soccer Momma for Obama Hung Up Her Cleats Jodi Jacobson 2010

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