Word: partisanship
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...doubts about the results of detente will not necessarily last. Much depends on whether a satisfactory SALT agreement can be achieved. Some of the carping is also simple partisanship. Any policy that Richard Nixon launched, Henry Kissinger executed and Gerald Ford might use to improve his chances for election is sharply opposed by many Democrats...
Responding as he felt he had to, Ford has nonetheless bobbled his first grand opportunity to lead the nation out of its concentration on a lost cause and to heal the wounds of domestic partisanship over Viet Nam. To be sure, he could not with a mere speech assuage the agony or the guilt that many Americans feel when they think of the lost and ruined lives, or watch the suffering of the war victims on their television screens. The worry over what still lies ahead for those in Indochina, both Americans and those to whom the U.S. owes...
This is not an academic discussion, but a handbook for women. As such there is no need or extensive political and economic analysis of the pros and cons of working without pay. But a little less rabid partisanship would have produced a better and more well-reasoned book...
...resisting any change was so craftily mounted, that the modification amounted to a significant victory for the more liberal factions of both parties. The fight was led by Democratic Senators Walter Mondale of Minnesota and James Pearson of Kansas, with an invaluable assist from Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, whose partisanship as presiding officer enraged his conservative critics...
Sharaf said that the United States has furthered peace prospects since the 1973 war by abandoning its position of "total Israeli partisanship" and assuming a mediating role, Sharaf said...