Word: clout
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...forth on things they know nothing about. But that's not enough to explain why she has become such a lightning rod for criticism. Why is it that Arnold Schwarzenegger can hang out with Newt Gingrich and not take any hits? What Streisand is a victim of is her clout as the virtual ATM of Democratic politics. By simply and literally opening her mouth, she raised $1.5 million in one evening for six congressional candidates in 1986 (five won) and $1 million for Clinton in September 1992. It's much more seemly to be like Republicans, who are better...
...Virginia's Contract Information Center, which has 500 radio talk shows on its superefficient fax network. CIC sent pro-Contract clips and talking points to the shows; many hosts read the material verbatim on the air. The scheme worked handsomely; the Rush Republicans went to the polls. Limbaugh's clout is immense; former Congressman Vin Weber says Rush is as responsible as anyone else for the G.O.P. victory, and last week the Democrats of Texas paid him the compliment of a "Crush Rush with the Truth" campaign to fight his views by heckling stations and pressuring advertisers. Limbaugh, of course...
...service, Qiao is a contender because he commands strategic loyalties among generals, police and party conservatives. He is also virtually untarnished by the Tiananmen massacre; unofficial accounts say he abstained from a Politburo vote on whether to send in the military. His leadership abilities and attempt to bring some clout to the traditionally rubber-stamp Congress will be put to the test when it meets in March...
...anxiety is understandable, if grossly exaggerated. Blacks have ample reason to mistrust a party that owes so much of its success to playing up white resentments. Moreover, black political clout in Congress has plummeted, some key civil rights groups are in disarray, and some fear Bill Clinton may lurch to the right in a desperate re-election strategy. As Ronald Walters, a Howard University political scientist puts it, "We're on the defensive across the board...
...Ceding power is "like getting out of the day-care business. All of a sudden, it looks like a good deal." So is Newt Gingrich nanny to the nation? He will certainly get to conciliate and cajole, to deal and dole out, to demand and deliver -- with all the clout of a victorious revolutionary, with all the prestige of a virtual President...