Word: clout
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fashion, rising or falling like hemlines, depending on who's running things in Washington. Bill Clinton's reflexive faith in their efficacy is hardly surprising, since he is the No. 1 proponent of the post-cold war's leading fallacy: economic might counts far more than military clout. The quintessential domestic President, Clinton sees everyone as he sees Americans: as bourgeois consumers whose behavior is driven by economic concerns. The idea that bad guys are interested only in raw power, and dissuaded only by countervailing power, seems lost on him. At this rate, Clinton may soon echo the words...
...good for the U.S. economy if more workers joined labor unions, vs. 36% who thought that would be bad -- yet 37% thought unions have too much power, in contrast to 23% who believed they have too little. That hardly constitutes the climate necessary for a dramatic increase in union clout. But after the savage buffeting the union movement has suffered over the past 30 years or more, even interrupting a funeral procession marks a noteworthy change...
...million, France's largest ever. But the picture was a mess. That Zhang and Mikhalkov shared the second-place Grand Jury Prize was seen as the jury's amicable nod to two established directors. That Queen Margot won the thanks-for-coming Jury Prize was thought to reflect the clout of the panel's three French members...
...only intensifies suspicion that the white West's refusal to come to the aid of black Africa is racist. Wrote columnist Simon Hoggart in the British daily Guardian: "Nobody you know has ever been on holiday to Rwanda. And Rwandans don't look like us. They have even less clout than Bosnian Muslims...
...most powerful lobbies on Capitol Hill taking big hits. Even though PAC dominance never matched public conceptions, for years, such large groups as the National Rifle Association (NRA) and the tobacco lobby possessed enough political clout to stimy any legislative attack against them...