Word: unpartisan
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...that his disposition is to remain above the partisan fray. It is crucial he does just that. When Bernanke moves just up Constitution Ave. to the Fed, he assumes a unique position deliberately designed to be insulated from the political tides of Washington. The Fed chairman should remain unpartisan, focusing on the long-run growth of the economy rather than short political time horizons. That’s not to say he should not advise the president or speak out when he believes a policy is wrong. But he should not simply tow a party line. Greenspan?...
There’s nothing really apolitical about Heaney or his “longed for tidal wave of justice,” just something unpartisan. And while Heaney might not rock the vote, his words are inspiring enough to have hung (as they did) on Clinton‘s White House study walls...
What met his eye last week was not a paucity of happenings but 1967's "ten grossest excesses." It was a brilliant, unpartisan, vindictive selection. Charles de Gaulle was there, of course, along with Mao and his Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. The 1967 football season, hanging on "like a summer cold," qualified. So did Jacqueline Kennedy magazine covers and the movie Casino Royale, "the utter boring vacuity of the put-on carried to excess." Among gross literary excesses there was, happily, Marshall McLuhan's "losing battle with the English language," and The Story of O, "unarguably the dullest...
...Took pains to say "how much I have respected and admired the attitude" of Georgia's Democratic Senator Walter George, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, "in trying to preserve a true bipartisan, unpartisan approach to all our foreign problems...
Some 30,000 persons crowded Missoula (pop. 24,000) for the doggedly unpartisan presidential dedication of an aerial fire-fighting depot. Places on the platform with Ike were assigned to public officeholders; this excluded many of the state's Republican Party leaders, but would have given a seat to rabidly New Dealing Senator James Murray-who failed to appear (a traffic jam delayed him, his friends said). During a brief talk about natural resources, however, the President did slip in a plug for the G.O.P. senatorial candidate. Representative Wesley D'Ewart, whom Ike described as "my good friend...