Word: partisan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Responding to an emergency motion filed by Partisan Defense Committee (PDC) counsel Valerie West and Geronimo's long-time counsel Stuart Hanlon, Federal District Court Judge Weigel granted a temporary restraining order compelling prison officials to grant Geronimo single cell status...
...Kansas decision represents creationism's first--and surely temporary--success with a third strategy for subverting a constitutional imperative: that by simply deleting, but not formally banning, evolution, and by not demanding instruction in a biblically literalist "alternative," their narrowly partisan religious motivations might not derail their goals...
...strike against anyone sounding too many pro-Bradley notes. "Ninety-five percent of my colleagues here on the Democratic side believe that Bill Clinton has consciously turned over the reins of political power--the power of appointment, the power of pardon, the power relating to those things that affect partisan politics--to Al Gore," Biden says. "Whether that's true or not, and it appears to be, is not really the point. That's an unusual tactic, a 1940s tactic. Not retribution, but just real clear." Gore's camp had no response...
...trillion-dollar windfall really be a problem? For nearly two decades, the U.S. wrestled with huge budget deficits that burdened the economy. But now that Washington projects a $1 trillion budget surplus over the next 10 years, the delightful news has mainly become a cause for pitched partisan wrangling...
...final lines are being drawn in America's great HMO debate ? and it looks as if the issue will mostly be settled at the ballot box. The Senate on Thursday slogged through a second day of grueling partisan combat, eventually passing a more limited Republican version of a Patients' Bill of Rights. Amendment by amendment, the GOP majority struck down every Democratic attempt to give broader access to specialists and emergency-room care to the broadest possible number of insured patients, some 161 million persons. In nearly every case, Republicans came back to pass similar, but more limited, measures that...