Word: nonpartisan
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...strictly academic," says Reich. "We have very, very consciously tried to keep it nonpartisan. We're not trying to help or hinder any group...
Boston's mayoral candidates yesterday transformed the city's annual Columbus Day parade into an orgy of politicking as they attempted to shore up support for today's nonpartisan preliminary election...
Relatively nonpartisan economists are less concerned about inflation than they are about the threat that a rapid recovery will cause a collision between the borrowing needs of business to finance rising output and the demands of Government for borrowing to cover deficits. This would force up interest rates enough to make the U.S. recovery self-destruct-to say nothing of the baneful effects of high American interest rates, and the concomitant strength of the U.S. dollar, on foreign economies (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS). The speed of the recovery indicated by the latest unemployment figures, says Lawrence Chimerine, chief economist of Chase...
...Teachers in Albuquerque, Reagan pointed out that spending for schools soared between 1960 and 1980 while college-board scores slumped. "If a 600% increase could not make America smarter," he asked, "how much more do we need?" With remarkable detachment, the President at one point portrayed himself as a nonpartisan critic of the Federal Government. "Send a message to Washington, D.C.," he said. "Tell them education must never become a political football because your children come first...
...Britain is the fact that the views of Kent and the C.N.D. have become explicitly political issues: they parallel those of the Labor Party in its fight against Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's Conservatives in the June 9 national election. Although the C.N.D. insists that it is nonpartisan, British Defense Minister Michael Heseltine has written to Conservative candidates in marginal constituencies warning that the C.N.D. is out to defeat them...