Word: nonpartisan
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...there is any lesson to be learned from the past, it is that no one will stand up for vulnerable people if they do not first stand up for themselves. From 80-20—the national nonpartisan group working for greater equality for Asian Americans in American politics—to Asians Against Ignorance, there are already resources available to help combat discrimination and racial bullying. But they are only effective tools if Americans unite in their efforts to use them. In a country founded on principles of justice and equality for all, these lingering trends of discrimination...
...hole, a backlash has set in. Some voter activists, computer scientists and elected officials have joined a growing movement to either make the systems more accountable or pull the plug entirely. Electronic voting is "a rickety system with poor federal and state oversight," says Kim Alexander, president of the nonpartisan California Voter Foundation. "It has produced an endless stream of bad news." In the most dramatic move against the controversial systems, a state advisory panel urged California secretary of state Kevin Shelley to prohibit the use in this fall's election of 16,000 evoting machines that four counties purchased...
...report, called “Renewing the Atlantic Partnership,” was sponsored by the nonpartisan Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). The task force was led by Summers and former Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger...
...found it to be a remarkably nonpartisan enterprise,” he said. “We had a pretty wide range of individuals across the political spectrum, and I think that pretty much everyone checked their political hat in the cloak room and the debate was very much on the substance of the issues and the intellectual debates...
Foster is Medicare’s chief actuary, the government’s top nonpartisan analyst of Medicare costs. An award-winning mathematician with—as The New York Times recently described it—a “reputation for being careful in his assessments,” Foster estimated (after “dozens and dozens of analyses”) that Bush’s prescription drug benefit bill would cost about $150 billion more over 10 years than the White House told Congress...