Word: partisanship
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...governor. The State's endemic financial crisis calls for a governor of more stature than the incumbent, John Swainson, and Romney can legitimately pledge himself to a platform of reconstruction. It is also obvious that a regeneration of the state will require some kind of political reconciliation; for simple partisanship has long since ceased to work in the state's interests...
...shelter program, and that he, Carlino, only did what a good Republican should by falling in line. The following day (Feb. 6, one day before he came to Harvard as a non-political academic), Rockefeller took the stand and insisted that the shelter issue was "beyond party and beyond partisanship and beyond considerations of personal advantage...
...minute State of the Nation address last week, Macapagal said, "It's wasted effort to steep the young in virtue and morality only to let them realize as they grow up that their elders are neither moral nor virtuous." He ended in an appeal, "to set aside-partisanship," and, with tears, told the legislators: "We have been elected under different parties, but we have been elected by the same people...
...MAKING OF THE PRESIDENT 1960, by Theodore H. White. A superb job of reporting, tense as only a few novels are, by a journalist who let his partisanship for Kennedy be known, but did not let it cloud his judgment...
True, the Senator's discussion suffers from a perplexing partisanship. Why should Republicans be "ideally suited to lead" a partnership of government and business in overseas development? Eisenhower and Kennedy Administrations have agreed without hesitation that such alliance is absolutely necessary, and I fear that Democrats have had to carry most of the battle against protectionism. Javits speaks of providing "pools of management and technical personnel for long-term...governmental development projects," but fails to mention anywhere that the U.S. Government itself will be incapable of long-term planning unless the President's foreign aid bill, under scrutiny...