Word: clout
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...committee all but ignored protests from cigarette manufacturers. Despite giving more than $12 million since 1995 to the Republican Party and G.O.P. candidates and spending record sums on Ermenegildo Zegna-clad lawyers, the once mighty tobacco lobby has lost almost all its clout in Congress. Quipped a G.O.P. fund raiser: "Twelve million doesn't buy what it used to." McCain wasn't so sympathetic either. He was convinced that once the companies realized that the deal would only get worse for them the longer they held out, they would come aboard. Not that the fight is over. "Keep a steady...
...from Singapore's Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong, who called Clinton to urge the U.S. to intervene. That helped trigger a Feb. 18 White House session in which Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin proposed Mondale, a former ambassador to Japan, as Clinton's envoy. Participants agreed that Mondale had the clout to pressure Suharto while reassuring him that the U.S. remains his friend...
...political clout did not hurt his image. O'Neill's influence helped bring the district money for depressing Boston's central artery--a massive public works project that locals have dubbed "Tip O'Neill's Going Away Present...
...parts of his life and focus intently on the job at hand. The performance in the Cabinet Room speaks as well to a growing worry: Will the President manage to turn his gaze overseas often enough to protect U.S. national interests? Nervous foreign governments are wondering how much clout the leader of the free world can still wield, and how fast it might drain away in the bloodletting over Interngate. As Administration officials tell it, the scandal posed no problem. And to make the point more emphatically, officials say, "He certainly has no trouble concentrating on issues...
...Washington outsider, was so close to this consummate insider. There was talk that Jordan could have any Cabinet post he wanted, but in the end he wanted no post at all. Jordan saw no reason to submit himself to financial disclosures or give up the clout and freedom of private practice. He knew he could speak to Clinton whenever he chose, on any topic he chose. After all, the two men saw each other frequently for golf. The Clintons spent Christmas Eve with the Jordans and regularly visited them on the Vineyard in the summer. Says Jordan's friend Richard...