Word: nonpartisan
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...percent of black children lived in poverty in 1993, compared with 17 percent of white children. "This information provides further evidence that we are in danger of becoming a society of haves and have-nots," Brown said. "This is unacceptable." TIME national correspondent Jack E. White says the nonpartisan reports will "reinforce the belief that black interests have been put on the political back burner," and will jolt major black groups like the NAACP to take stronger stands on economic issues. "This is confirmation that 30 years after the Civil Rights acts were passed, blacks don't enjoy anything like...
...percent of black children lived in poverty in 1993, compared with 17 percent of white children. "This information provides further evidence that we are in danger of becoming a society of haves and have-nots," Brown said. "This is unacceptable." TIME national correspondent Jack E. White says the nonpartisan reports will "reinforce the belief that black interests have been put on the political back burner," and will jolt major black groups like the NAACP to take stronger stands on economic issues. "This is confirmation that 30 years after the Civil Rights acts were passed, blacks don't enjoy anything like...
...Wellcome, as well as AT&T, Turner Broadcasting and Lockheed. All are under federal regulation or have contracts with the government--and are thus barred from contributing directly to political campaigns. The foundation has not indicated the amounts each corporation has contributed. The foundation, which is tax exempt, officially nonpartisan and not subject to federal election laws, can receive unlimited amounts of money from donors and is not bound to disclose the names of its supporters. Nevertheless, it admits it has received a total of $1.7 million since...
...plane. Spare parts and additional engineering would tack on about $2 billion to the total bill. And some government bean counters regard even that proposed $13.5 billion price tag as too low an estimate. The Pentagon believes the final price for another 20 planes would approach $20 billion. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office concludes that each new B-2 could cost $1.3 billion, for a total of $26 billion. ``I don't know where Northrop is coming up with their numbers,'' says William Myers, who spent 20 years in the Air Force charting weapons costs and has been doing...
...speaker Newt Gingrich(R-Ga.) today backed off from his proposal floated earlier this week to dismantle the House ethics committee and wrap its functions into another panel. Today, he said it would remain as a "free-standing committee with an equal number of members on both sides, totally nonpartisan." Gingrich's statement came after Democrats accused Gingrich of trying to hide his own ethical problems.Post your opinion on theWashingtonbulletin board...