Word: nonpartisan
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...nonprofit and nonpartisan organization founded in 1981 by a group of American journalists, publicizes and protests offenses against journalists. In specific instances, the CPJ acts on behalf of journalists facing physical or legal threats—including kidnapping, imprisonment, harassment and censorship...
Laws that mandate a LIVING WAGE have helped reduce poverty, according to a study by the nonpartisan Public Policy Institute of California. The laws, instituted in nearly 40 cities, mandate a HIGHER MINIMUM wage than the Federal Government's $5.15 per hour. Critics have long argued that the living wage can REDUCE JOBS, since employers may be unwilling or unable to pay higher wages. And living-wage laws don't cover all workers, often only those whose employers have city contracts. Still, in cities like SAN FRANCISCO (where the living wage is $10 an hour), the report says the laws...
...Vice President Dick Cheney, which deliberated in secret and made policy proposals seen as friendly to industry. Representative Henry Waxman, a California Democrat, has just written Cheney to ask whether his panel was "influenced by unreliable data or opinions provided by Enron." Meanwhile, the General Accounting Office, a nonpartisan investigative arm of Congress, is pressing its long-standing (and so far denied) request for task-force records. Comptroller General David Walker, who runs the GAO, tells TIME that pending energy legislation and congressional inquiries into Enron make it imperative that Cheney produce the material. If Cheney refuses to budge, Walker...
...Paradigm said Bush stole the election in Florida. In the New Paradigm, even many Democrats are grateful that Al Gore isn't sitting in the White House. In this sense, the N.P. is nonpartisan, though it tilts toward the conservative (when someone wants to blow up your country, you naturally want to conserve it). Bill Clinton is a relic of another time, like the 1920s party boy F. Scott Fitzgerald stranded in the landscape of the Great Depression...
Strada's staff knows what to expect. Although it includes a handful of foreign medics, most of the more than 200 support staff are themselves previous patients, victims of the country's chronic warfare. The nonpartisan Emergency had been operating a hospital in Kabul as well, but shut it down in May after a raid by the Taliban religious police, in which both foreign and Afghan staff members were beaten up. The reason: men and women were not properly segregated in the dining hall...