Two nonpartisan experts on proliferation issues said in telephone interviews today that Iran's admissions could be evidence of a new openness.

Republican, Democratic and nonpartisan experts say adjustment would probably restore a seat that New Jersey would otherwise lose, and take away a seat Washington State expects to gain.

The corporation's presidency, its senior staff job, is traditionally reserved for a nonpartisan expert in public broadcasting.

When you talk to serious, nonpartisan experts with experience on the ground, you find that most think the war is at least a 50-50 proposition.

But some nonpartisan experts, seeing a pro-business tilt in the revised rules, say the administration is wrong to assert that more workers will gain overtime coverage than lose it.

Statistical analyses - not just of the distribution of voting machines, but of wildly anomalous voting patterns - have left nonpartisan experts shaking their heads.

In fact, unlike our opponents, we're setting aside $300 billion in a reserve fund just in case those projections the nonpartisan experts make are not quite right.

Bernstein is known for advocating stricter standards for the admissibility of expert testimony, and the much more frequent use of nonpartisan experts.

But nonpartisan political experts see no great national implications in the vote.

Democrats and some nonpartisan experts say Mr. Bush and his budget director, Richard G. Darman, deserved more credit than they had received.