Word: partisans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...providing leadership." Following the CTBT defeat, the President came out swinging, telling the world that he was engaged in a titanic struggle with "isolationist" Republicans, and that he planned to prevail. That was unlikely to reassure Washington?s friends abroad; the fact that the Senate debacle occurred when partisan skirmishing created a momentum that even Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott was unable to stop suggested that there was chaos in the wheelhouse of the world?s last superpower...
...American people deserve more than partisan posturing and legislative gamesmanship on an issue this vital," he said in a speech practically interchangeable with various proclamations on everything from the budget to campaign finance reform. "A bipartisan majority is poised to pass this bill, but now they are being blocked by legislative tactics." For Republican leaders, who insist it?s the Democrats, not them, who?ve tied cement blocks to the bill, the goal is to position HMO reform as close as possible to the business interests that support them most fervently. That means limiting lawsuits and capping damage awards. Democrats...
Watson's attack on politicians was non-partisan, as he criticized both ends of the political spectrum for interfering in genetics...
...issues postwar Germany was doing its best to forget made its author a legendary social critic and literary provocateur. He became strongly identified with Germany?s political left, and in 1990 was criticized for rejecting the speedy reunification of East and West Germany. "In his later writing, he took partisan political positions," says Gray. "But in ?The Tin Drum? he sides broadly with humanity against Nazism. It?s one of the great books of the ?50s and ?60s in any language." One group that won?t be impressed by the Nobel Committee?s choice: Oklahomans for Children and Families...
...rumors of a political crisis to worry about, Russians have written off the money scandals as dirty business as usual. But in the U.S. the corruption seems to symbolize reform gone wrong, a wholesale failure of Russia to transform itself into a working free-market democracy. And as the partisan Campaign 2000 machinery in Washington revs up, what better rallying cry for challengers than "Who lost Russia...