Word: nonpartisans
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While Glenn takes a broad, nonpartisan approach, Jordan is expected to remind the convention and nation of all the Democrats have accomplished and stand...
...patients, and often have to rough it in hostile terrain. When Peru's mountain dwellers showed reluctance to come to M.S.F.'s field hospitals after the 1974 quake, the doctors climbed the Andes by mule and horseback to reach the injured. By ironclad rule, they are scrupulously nonpartisan; no nation has ever rejected them for political reasons. In the Viet Nam, October and Angolan wars, M.S.F. offered help to all; the doctors themselves have so far sustained no casualties. They are also unfazed by the unexpected; after Nicaragua's 1972 quake, they found that their first duty...
...with insubordination because Yablonski had fought in the Pennsylvania legislature for the passage of a law compensating miners stricken with "black lung." Boyle thought the time was not right for the passage of such an act. He set out to stifle Yablonski by making him director of Labor's Nonpartisan League, the union's feeble political arm. Yablonski decided to challenge Boyle in the 1969 election. This decision led to his murder...
...head of Data Resources Inc., a private forecasting firm, observes that the budget assumes the recovery will be kept going in 1977 by a bigger and faster surge in private demand, and particularly in business spending for new plant and equipment, than he believes will occur. David Grove, a nonpartisan vice president of IBM, agrees: "For the past two or three years, the economic and political situation has been so unstable that it is very hard for business firms to determine what degree of risk is prudent in any investment project." If the Ford budget is adopted, he predicts, real...
Performed imaginatively on slippery turf in Peking, now primed for domestic tracks ... A favorite of Ford, who may have done him a disservice by slotting him into supposedly nonpartisan CIA post ... Is likely to come under constant crossfire from Congress ... His best-foot-forward performance as G.O.P. national chairman during Watergate period endeared him to party regulars, but his ill-disguised political ambition may repel even more irregulars...