Word: nonpartisanship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rabbi Alexander Schindler, chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, abandoned a tradition of nonpartisanship in Israel's internal affairs by throwing the support of his group's 32 diverse Jewish organizations behind Begin. "Israel has a leader who deserves this support," said Schindler. "He is a worthy leader not only of Israel, but of the entire Jewish people." Meaning: any attempt by Washington to try to pry Begin from power in Israel would be resisted by much of the Jewish community in the U.S. After winning that resounding backing, Begin flew home...
...agonies of Ashland finally may have ended. At the meeting reconvened with SEC approval at company headquarters in the river town of Ashland, Ky., stockholders voted 97% in favor of re-electing the entire board and defeated by 93% a proposal that the company formally affirm its political nonpartisanship...
...exhaustion of natural resources of energy and of food; the imminent doubling of the world's population in the next half-century; the use and misuse of atomic power, and similar problems. At least we now have a better chance to consider these problems in an atmosphere of nonpartisanship than we did while engaged in the elementary though essential task of saving our political and constitutional system. For too long, now, our center of gravity has been Washington. Now we must all realize that our center of gravity is the globe...
...Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility and the Corporation Subcommittee on Shareholder Responsibility have managed to find enough objectionable points in this year's batch of amendments to vote against a solid majority of them. Harvard opposed, for instance, a series of resolutions asking corporations to affirm their political nonpartisanship because, although the sentiments behind the resolution were noble, the corporations had already said publicly that they are nonpartisan...
That objection seems, of course, to be a minor point; certainly it couldn't hurt the company to affirm its nonpartisanship again. The ACSR and Corporation subcommittee, though, don't operate that way; they generally vote according to the wording, not the spirit, of the resolutions. It's as if both groups, particularly the Corporation subcommittee, vote on each resolution as though, with Harvard's approval, it would immediately go into effect...