Word: partisan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gene Purdy came up with an unassisted shorthanded goal on a pretty backhand seven minutes later to silence a partisan crowd that had been begging long and hard for a Harvard penalty...
...Partisan Politics...
Lowest Point. Schultze will need his rapport to maintain a grip on policy. Over the years, the CEA's power has fluctuated wildly according to the performance of its chief and his relationship with the President. Chairman Leon Keyserling so angered Congress by his partisan support of Truman Administration policies that President Eisenhower let Congress put the council out of business briefly in 1953. Walter Heller played a dominant role in shaping the economic policies of the Kennedy and early Johnson Administrations, but President Nixon listened far more to his Treasury Secretaries, George Shultz and John Connally, than...
...ever is a Palestinian state in the Middle East, it will owe its existence to the fabulous wealth and political leverage of OPEC Arabs, not to the murderous acts of Al-Fatah. As Laqueur, Parry and Psychiatrist Frederick J. Hacker demonstrate in their books, guerrilla tactics (as differentiated from partisan action or government terror) have usually been an attention-getting device: if war is diplomacy by other means, then terrorism is a gruesome arm of public relations...
...around to talking about Carter, most of them sounded upbeat. Said Donald Percy, a vice president at the University of Wisconsin: "Our mood now is one of quiet expectancy." Still, as Marquette University Sociologist Wayne Youngquist pointed out, Carter "doesn't have a great reservoir of partisan feeling to draw on as a kind of cushion. He's going to have to produce." Added Theologian Martin Marty of the University of Chicago: "A lot of married couples forgo the honeymoon cruise and take up housekeeping right away. He's going to have to do that...