Word: clout
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...would-be replacements signaled they had no interest in taking the reins. By Tuesday morning, the ranks of possible candidates had shrunk dramatically. U.S. Rep. Robert Menendez, the presumed front-runner, told party elders he wasn't interested, saying he prefers to stay in the House where his clout is more assured. Former Senator (and one-time presidential candidate) Bill Bradley isn't answering his phone and no one has heard from another former Senator, Frank Lautenberg, although insiders say he is the most likely of the marquee players...
...laughed off suggestions that he had manufactured the Iraq debate to divert attention from the sagging economy. "It's ridiculous!" he told TIME. "That's not me, and you know it." But that's the thing about Rove; few people know exactly where or whether the perception of his clout diverges from reality...
...fable of pedagogy, but with a much lighter touch?there cannot have been a more charming, disarming movie in Toronto. A 13-year-old violin prodigy arrives in Beijing with his father, who is determined the boy will have the very best teacher?the one, that is, with the clout to make his son famous. This scenario risks stumbling into villainizing or bathos, yet Prof. Chen (who plays one of the teachers) is as sure of cinematic foot as the boy is of virtuoso fingers. Together offers a delightful scherzo of emotions...
...university president, Summers must be especially attentive to that effect. He has the potential to exercise enormous clout on the academic and professional futures of Harvard’s students and faculty—particularly on those untenured faculty who may one day require his signature at the end of the tenure process. Even if Summers never applies that clout to promote a political agenda, the mere threat of being targeted could certainly stifle critics...
...more and more capable of speaking with one voice," conceded Vladimir Djeric, a top Yugoslav foreign ministry official. These are critical days for the region. While the worst of the Yugoslav wars may be over, the next two months bring a flurry of elections that will test the lingering clout of nationalists and hard-liners from Banja Luka to Belgrade. In Macedonia, where elections are set for Sept. 15, hostilities have already broken the surface calm. In the past two weeks, a pair of Macedonian police and two ethnic Albanians have been killed and five Macedonians kidnapped (and later released...