Word: partisans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...admittedly partisan Democrat, Reese says Bush has given no indication of what he hopes to accomplish in the White House: "We have no idea what Mr. Bush is going to do as president. All we know is that he is for people saying the Pledge of Allegiance, preventing Black men from raping white women and against the ACLU. I don't know anything else about him," he says...
...censure Israel for its actions rather than using American influence to bring both sides of the conflict together in negotiations. Calling for a complete cut-off of American aid to Israel is a blackmail tactic not befitting of reasoned foreign policy. Referenda should be for constructive purposes, not for partisan manipulation. It would be more productive for us to call on Israel to change its methods and start pushing for peace, than to cut off all effective ties with...
...Board, we will commence a new chapter in our relations with the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers. I will work to make this relationship as constructive and harmonious as possible. We are not likely to achieve this goal unless many people on both sides overcome the partisan feelings that have naturally arisen in the course of a long election campaign. I therefore urge everyone concerned to proceed in a positive spirit and to join in a creative effort to serve the needs of all our employees in a manner consistent with the mission of the University...
...LCCR is a non-partisan organization thatcoordinates civil rights activities within acoalition of 180 national groups representingminorities, women, disabled persons, labor,religious groups, and senior citizens. Neas saidthat the LCCR provides "objective data andanalyses" for the voting public, but does not backspecific candidates
...what about issues that happen to fall outside traditional partisan ! agendas? Politicians don't act; they react. So it's not surprising that there should be a lag between a problem's first appearance in fact and in someone's stump speech. New issues have indeed been able to make their way into the campaign. Neither drugs nor the environment was a deciding factor in any recent presidential race. But after a year of national concern about crack wars, followed by a summer of worry over the greenhouse effect and kindred ecological disasters, Manuel Noriega has become the favorite foreign...