Word: partisanship
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...Philadelphia that his unpaid assistant took over his office. Last week, when he announced his intention to resign, DiIulio cited personal and health reasons. He has heart trouble, but was also frustrated with the good-soldier corporate culture of the Bush White House, and bitter about the suspicion and partisanship--on both sides--that had all but crippled his program. "The job is literally killing him," a sympathetic White House official said last week...
...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...