Word: partisans
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...what he expects others to be. He's asking voters to buy him more than any agenda. A "uniter, not a divider," he crows over his warm working relationships with Democrats in the Texas legislature. He keeps his distance from congressional Republicans because they're all so nasty and partisan up there in Washington, and he vows to bring civility to the place. His Big Tent will be the biggest ever. Why should a little disagreement over abortion make us all tense and angry with one another? The ideology-lite candidate, Bush was able to change from compassionate conservative...
...Bronco on his dusty ranch outside Waco; or a candid moment at home when he and his wife Laura share a laugh at his expense, the point will be the same: that Bush, with his sunny optimism and persuasive charm, is the antidote to eight years of duplicity and partisan bickering in Washington...
...could include Russia as a cost-sharing partner. Even in a Congress raised on pork, such seeming make-work did not go down easily. In June 1993, Roemer introduced an amendment to cut off station funding. The measure failed, but only by a whisker, 216 to 215. In a partisan Congress, a one-vote margin is a tenuous thing, and in order to widen the gap, NASA turned to a time-tested budgetary strategy, spreading the wealth...
Congress and the White House are so dependent on special-interest campaign contributions and so mired in partisan gridlock, plaintiffs' lawyers say, that it is often impossible to get anything done there. Exhibit A is Congress's failure to act on the Patients' Bill of Rights before it fled Washington for its summer recess. Ask Scruggs if trial lawyers are trying to run America, and he doesn't bother to deny it. "Somebody's got to do it," he says, laughing...
...desire to help speed up human genetics that drove me in 1986 to become an early partisan of the Human Genome Project, whose ultimate objective was to sequence the roughly 3 billion DNA letters that comprise our genetic code. Though many young hot-shots argued that the time for the project had not yet arrived, those of us a generation older were seeing at too close hand our parents and spouses falling victim to diseases of genetic predisposition. And virtually all of us knew couples rearing children whose future was clouded by a bad throw of the genetic dice...