Word: nonpartisan
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...group of leaders in academics, law, labor and industry have formed a private council to sponsor detailed nonpartisan studies of national domestic issues...
Ambitious Task. The 14-month study, financed by a $200,000 grant from the Ford Foundation, was conducted by the nonpartisan, nonprofit Citizens Conference on State Legislatures. From its Kansas City base, the group has been working for legislative reform since 1965, but it had never before undertaken the ambitious task of examining all 50 legislatures, then ranking each in descending order of quality...
...Will the radic-lib who wrote that beautiful bit about what the President might have said please stick to nonpartisan endeavors...
...Rafferty is to California education what Spiro Agnew is to national politics-a spellbinder of alliterative conservatism. Eight years ago, Rafferty swept the nonpartisan race for state Superintendent of Public Instruction by denouncing "permissive, pragmatic progressivism." He lost a loud bid for the Senate two years ago, but has since delighted his admirers by advocating mass searches for drugs in student lockers, by presenting guidelines for "moral instruction" that criticized pacifism, and by urging science teachers to give "equal time" to the Adam and Eve account of creation...
...dovishness became fashionable in the Wall Street community. Largely because of his antiwar stand, he took a six months' leave of absence in 1968 to become chief fund raiser for Senator Eugene McCarthy's political campaign. Now he is helping to plan John Gardner's drive to form a nonpartisan national citizens' lobby that would act to reshape national policies and priorities. Last week Stein made a quick trip to Northern Ireland to see for himself one of the world's trouble spots; while there he moved through barbed-wire barricades to talk with Catholic priests, Protestant militants and heavily...