Quite often, leadership will take small steps to maintain status quo rather than do something bold and try and leapfrog the competition.
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But then what the OECD countries are doing is simply trying to maintain status quos which really have no validity in the face of demanding efficiency through competition.
The referendum choices include two options for change and one to maintain the status quo.
The choices include two options for change and one to maintain the status quo.
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Created last year, it is well funded by businessmen eager to maintain the status quo.
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One, James Hahn, the city attorney for 16 years, is likely to maintain the status quo.
Firstly, a look at those trying to maintain the status quo, and likely to lose the most.
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Organized labor continues to rely on a model of using friendly politicians to set rules that maintain the status quo.
Such HR practices keep a company from hiring, promoting and rewarding people who don't maintain the status quo.
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke speaks today, but it appears the FOMC is likely to maintain the status quo.
The original referendum proposition sets out three questions including two options for change and one to maintain the status quo.
But this would simply maintain a status quo in which we muddle through, and permit a slow deterioration of conditions there.
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Some members of the Supreme Council of Armed Forces may also back him "because he might maintain the status quo, " Ashour said.
And so there may be those in Washington who want to maintain the status quo, but we want to move America forward.
Bureaucracies tend to seek to maintain the status quo and resist change.
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That's a model that could shake up the entire wireless industry--and possibly pose a threat to carriers who would rather maintain the status quo.
Oppenheimer International Bond (OIBAX) fund manager Sara Zervos says despite the downgrade, US government debt will maintain its status as safe haven of choice.
Option C will maintain the status quo of eight senators elected island wide, 29 deputies in a range of constituency sizes and 12 parish constables.
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The new arrangement will do more than maintain the status quo.
The grassroots organization challenges Ballmer to bring it on: if Microsoft forks over the evidence by May 1st, Linux developers will alter their code accordingly to maintain freeware status.
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The Court finds that vacatur of the rule would merely maintain the status quo and cause far less disruption than vacating the regime after it has gone into effect.
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European brands also will only maintain the status quo.
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The British institutions have never been very good at beating Wall Street in the investment banking game anyway, and, much to Knight Vinke's annoyance, HSBC's managers seem content to maintain the status quo.
While a number of these new rules will apply to the problematic ratings industry, so far it seems the overhaul will do little more than add marginal regulations and maintain the status quo.
All avoiding the cliff would do is maintain the status quo by preventing additional serious drags from being dropped on the economy, but will that be enough to allow the economic recovery to remain on track?
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On 20 February, States members voted 37-12 to hold the referendum, which sets out three questions including two options for change and one to maintain the status quo including a planned reduction in the number of senators.
While the popes have attempted to maintain the status quo from the top down, three major phenomena are happening in the Church from the ground up -- and the media would be well advised to pay attention.
If it's spread down the middle, 50-50, or 51-49, then I think Congress's inclination is going to be not to change but to maintain the status quo until there's a greater indication that there is support for change.
As such, rules like the one Schumer seeks would at best maintain the status quo such that risky, "abusive" deals would continue to be assembled away from public exchanges, and at worst the new rule would simply drive these transactions overseas.
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