Word: nonpartisan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...members, however, emphasize the nonpartisan nature of their organization...
...least-frugal Senators* (as ranked by the nonpartisan Concord Coalition) who also had the audacity -- or was it courage? -- to vote for one of two competing balanced-budget amendments to the Constitution...
...recovery has increased tax revenues and helped the Administration reduce the federal budget deficit to a surprising extent. Just one year ago, the Congressional Budget Office projected a whopping $284 billion shortfall for fiscal 1995, which begins next October, and $287 billion for fiscal 1996. But last month the nonpartisan CBO predicted the budget gap would narrow to $166 billion in 1996. That would trim the deficit to just 2.2% of the country's gross domestic product, the lowest level since 1979. "Clinton's tax increases and spending cuts are largely responsible," says CBO director Robert Reischauer. "We have taken...
...study conducted by a nonpartisan team that includes high officials from the Reagan Administration, a consulting firm, Lewin-VHI, determined that President Clintons strategy for financing his health-care reforms was basically sound. Meanwhile, the President has asked New York lawyer Harold Ickes to lead the campaign for passage of the Clinton health plan...
...just the environmentalists who see a problem. A survey by the federal Centers for Disease Control shows that in 1989 and 1990, 4,288 people in 16 states got sick, and four died, from bacteria and viruses in their water. And last spring the nonpartisan General Accounting Office found, among other things, that many water systems do not test for all the pollutants the EPA considers dangerous, and don't evaluate distribution systems, operators or inspectors. Based on these and other studies, the N.R.D.C. has identified several especially worrisome hazards...