Word: partisanship
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...fact that Democrat Harold Washington, 60, an undistinguished Congressman with a disconcerting disregard for filing income tax returns happens to be black, and that Republican Bernard Epton, 61, an equally undistinguished former state legislator happens to be white. But it was getting increasingly hard to find any. The racial partisanship that dragged the mayoral race to a new low last week removed any doubt that next Tuesday's election was, alas, likely to turn out to be essentially a black-and-white matter...
Major churches fend off accusations of political partisanship...
...knew the doctor and his lover. Alexander has emerged with a portrait of Harris' selfish, hardhearted, authoritarian father that goes far to explain her longstanding tolerance of Tarnower's ill-treatment. The author acknowledges a sense of identification with Harris ("she reminds me of me"). But that partisanship does not prevent her from leading the reader through every squalid stage of Harris' 14-year affair with Tarnower. The Scarsdale physician, the son of humble Jewish immigrants, was a relentless social climber, impressed by the gracious airs and cultivated ways of the classy, Waspish headmistress. Soon, however...
...Money Several ranking representatives have already indicated opposition to using the council's $35,000 activities budget to support anything even vaguely "political." Since the entire 89-person assembly will approve all grants, this potentially paralyzing fear of partisanship should be set aside. Money should go to organizations which efficiently accomplish goals council members as a group endorse. Labels such as "liberal" and "conservative" should...
...annual report to the General Assembly, in September, that we are perilously close to a new international anarchy." The Secretary-General's main concern was that nations were increasingly ignoring the U.N. and its institutions, particularly the Security Council to resolve disputes by force. Said he: "Allegations of partisanship, indecisiveness or incapacity arising from divisions among member states are sometimes invoked to justify this sidetracking...