Word: bipartisanism
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...railroad industry and 11 unions have been bargaining for years over wages, work rules and health care. Tentative agreements were reached with only three unions just before the strike deadline. In January a bipartisan board created by the White House called for salary hikes accompanied by increases in the mileage that crews must travel for a day's pay and in worker contributions to health-plan costs. Most unions opposed the board's recommendations as promanagement. That may not matter. A new board is being set up with the power, so far uninvoked, to impose a settlement...
...hours, new placards appear: AL GORE FOR VEEP; DICK GEPHARDT KNOWS HOW TO BE NO. 2; BILL CLINTON IS CUTER THAN DAN QUAYLE. Corporate jets supplied by Strauss's legal clients fan out to fetch the prospects. The Democratic delegates rejoice; they have seen the future, and it is bipartisan...
...hold the obviously sarcastic sign, Bernard was not in any way justified in implying that that person was there in support of Operation Desert Storm. We believe that Bernard, in including the text of that placard out of context, was attempting to portray the members of our bipartisan organization in an entirely false light--as bloodthirsty, right-wing sadists...
...well aware that the public knows U.S. troops would not be fighting in the Persian Gulf if the region were the world's leading producer of tapioca rather than the repository of 70% of the world's oil reserves. In a nationwide survey taken last month by bipartisan pollsters, oil was most often cited as the main reason for the U.S. presence in the Middle East. The U.S. is more reliant on foreign oil today than at any time since the 1973 oil shock; imports have doubled since then, and last year accounted for more than half the trade deficit...
Several speakers said the movement supporting the Gulf war is bipartisan, citing polls that show that up to 91 percent of the American public support the war effort. Representatives of the Boston Conservative Society, the Harvard Republicans and Harvard-Radcliffe Democrats said they support the U.S. actions...