Word: partisans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that his first waking thought is how to make the day unbearable for Democrats. So when you hear the House majority leader fairly purring about one of them--particularly one who happens to be the new White House budget chief--it's time to wonder: Has the thawing of partisan hatred begun? Is progress in the air? Or is someone about to get rolled...
...better education for poor black children, husband of a woman who broke precedent and bravely crusaded nationally on one of the great social issues of the day, voracious book reader, shrewd observer who identified a massive shift in the U.S. economy and the job skills required to meet it, partisan of women's rights, winner of a knock-down, drag-out battle with a Congress that attempted to shut down the government and humiliate the President...
Last Sunday's New York Times Magazine featured a cover story on Trent Lott, the Republican Senate majority leader from Mississippi, in which Lott is described as "gracious and conservative," though the writer warns that he may have trouble managing his more partisan colleagues. Lott may not have the ideological fire to satisfy the right wing of his party; instead, he is perhaps better characterized as a pragmatist...
...members of Congress for any piece of legislation this year. He promised to "put a tremendous amount of his own time into the issue," Feingold says. And he talked seriously about how to apply pressure to the bill's Republican opponents in Congress without turning the effort into a partisan bloodbath. "We have to be very diplomatic and very clear that both sides are going to have to give," Clinton told his guests...
...line between the social and political use of WhoDB. Associate counsel Cheryl Mills set out ground rules in a January 1994 memo: only data used by the President in his official capacity could be entered. Once put in, they became government property that could not be used for partisan purposes. But within months, according to notes of a meeting, then deputy chief of staff Erskine Bowles was asking if the software could be deployed in the 1996 campaign. Told no, he nonetheless pressed for an interim report of 1992 early supporters and White House events they attended, apparently...