Word: nonpartisan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...your article on the political clout of organized labor [April 11], you incorrectly labeled Common Cause "the liberal lobby." Common Cause members come from all political ideologies and parties; we are a nonpartisan group...
...Americans, some of them German immigrants. His political critics chided Lorenz for using Help America to further his own political ambitions. But it seemed they were mainly annoyed about not getting the idea first. They had to admit that Lorenz's idea struck a soft spot, one as nonpartisan as the weather...
...suspicion both outside and inside that it might be expected to be a partisan arm of the Executive Branch. The purpose of my appointment and my taking the job was to show that that was not to be true, that the department could operate in a highly professional, nonpartisan way. Every action I took, so far as I could tell, was toward that point. Parts of the department had been set up so they reacted to calls from the White House, and this made the department vulnerable to manipulation. The department is much more one department now, and the White...
While Glenn takes a broad, nonpartisan approach, Jordan is expected to remind the convention and nation of all the Democrats have accomplished and stand...
...patients, and often have to rough it in hostile terrain. When Peru's mountain dwellers showed reluctance to come to M.S.F.'s field hospitals after the 1974 quake, the doctors climbed the Andes by mule and horseback to reach the injured. By ironclad rule, they are scrupulously nonpartisan; no nation has ever rejected them for political reasons. In the Viet Nam, October and Angolan wars, M.S.F. offered help to all; the doctors themselves have so far sustained no casualties. They are also unfazed by the unexpected; after Nicaragua's 1972 quake, they found that their first duty...