Word: partisans
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...people were recalling the age of Roosevelt, Acheson, Truman, Lovett, Forrestal, Kennan, Vandenberg, Eisenhower, Dulles and many more. It was a time when men and women moved in and out of Government, preserving and nurturing an attitude about U.S. participation in international affairs. More often than not they buried partisan feelings, consulted closely and hammered out lasting compromises that were clearly in the national interest. They assumed their responsibility principally out of a sense of obligation, and then because they enjoyed the work...
...every turn, the legislature has not been able to enact a law for at least six months. Its efforts to elect a new President have stretched unsuccessfully-and somewhat comically-over more than 100 ballots. Even a package of antiterrorist measures supported by both men has sunk into the partisan quicksand. Demirel's right-center party could probably win a majority if Turks went to the polls tomorrow, but Ecevit's left-center group and a small bloc of Islamic fundamentalists have stymied attempts to move the elections up from next June...
...reason discussion of bilingual education generates more partisan heat than pragmatic light is that its academic effectiveness is hard to measure. Shockingly, very little hard effort thus far has even been made to measure it. Critics and proponents alike have few real facts to go on. Both seem to agree that in the hands of a good teacher, bilingual programs reduce the high dropout rate among non-English-speaking students. They also agree that there is a terrible shortage of good bilingual teachers...
Closer to the grass roots, Democrats now hold 67 of the nation's 98 partisan state legislative chambers...
...Johnson also foresaw the end of his senatorial strength. Explains Moyers, a future presidential assistant: "If a Democrat got the nomination and won the election, then that Democrat was going to be Mr. Democrat in the nation. Not Lyndon Johnson . . . On the other hand, if Nixon were President-partisan, narrow, an infighter, a vehement man, not given to collaboration . . . Johnson knew that his relationship with the White House was over...