Word: partisanship
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...debate may have devolved into partisanship but there were underlying conflicting views of risk,” Ropeik said. The disagreement was “how large a role [in assessing risk] should facts have in comparison with values and fears...
...There Emerson hits precisely upon an essential imbecility of our own time. Rabid partisanship, an overboil of conviction, damages sight, impairs understanding, and may even ruin the joy of life. You see the world with one eye, peering straight ahead through one stupid, dogmatic lens, and walk through the day, as if it were a tunnel, in a state of smug, inflamed, combative rage...
Summers's colleagues in Washington say that he was a brilliant economic administrator who was critical in the development of the Clinton administration's financial policies. But they say that though Summers is a Democrat, his competence and lack of partisanship have earned him the admiration of Republicans and Democrats alike...
...CLUBHOUSE Whether you call it a revolving door, musical chairs or politics as usual, the comings and goings of the board of directors at Electronic Data Systems Corp. proves partisanship runs only so deep...
...frankly, like something Tom Daschle and Dick Gephardt would say, and indeed some of the signatories have given some of their big bucks to the Democratic party. But Gates, who organized the drive (and assures us his son agrees in spirit but preferred not to get involved), insists that partisanship had nothing to do with it. Just some civic-minded billionaires who think legislated financial dynasties are bad for America...