Word: partisans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...opening remarks as council president, Rawlins acknowledged the existence of partisan tension on the council but vowed to listen and make herself available to all council members...
...settles. After two years of denying that he had done anything wrong, the Speaker admitted in December that he had failed to seek proper legal guidance before using contributions to his tax-exempt foundation to finance a college lecture course, one that even he said was aimed at the partisan goal of electing a G.O.P. Congress. He also admitted turning in false information to committee investigators...
Just as in politics, the air in Washington these days is filled with talk of bi-partisan cooperation, and no one would be surprised to see Domingo, who has thus far largely limited his conducting to opera, waving a baton in front of the National Symphony. Indeed, Slatkin has already agreed to conduct an as yet to be determined opera with Domingo's company next fall. "We will have many collaborations," notes Domingo, "with Leonard coming to the opera and me going to the orchestra. I hope that at the end of the Slatkin-Domingo era, something special has happened...
...centrists--don't want to stake the success of the second term on perilous negotiations with Congress. The lesson of the still unfolding Gingrich scandal, White House aides say, is how much control members of the G.O.P. leadership still exert over the rank and file. In an intensely partisan atmosphere, collecting votes from G.O.P. moderates is going to be tough for Clinton. So he is choosing to forge ahead with the strategy that worked so well for him last year. Its essence: avoid grand legislative schemes and bypass Congress altogether in favor of low-cost proposals, Executive actions and speeches...
Gingrich's fate led to partisan bloodletting. After 14 hours of wrangling, the committee thought it had agreed on how to proceed: five days of hearings, then a vote on Gingrich's punishment and then Cole's report. Both sides woke up horrified. Republicans hated the public hearings. And Democrats demanded that Cole's report precede any vote; O.K., said committee chairwoman Nancy Johnson, rearranging the schedule to leave perhaps a day for hearings--which must now compete on TV with Clinton's Inaugural. Says an aide to a top Democrat: "We screwed...