Word: clout
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...Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City can hang banners advertising Tiepolo or Goya from its Fifth Avenue facade without having fingers wagged in its face, why shouldn't Steve Wynn, the modern-day Mike Todd or P.T. Barnum of Vegas, the man with more clout in the gambling-and-hotel business than anyone alive with the possible exception of Donald Trump, run Van Gogh and Picasso on the billboard for his new flagship hotel, the Bellagio, which cost $1.6 capital-B billion to build and decorate and opens to the public this week...
...Yards the St. Louis Rams football team were penalized for the excessive noise their fans made when cheering McGwire's 70th clout, which took place several blocks away...
...comes from borrowing--$280 million. But Snyderman is convinced that growth will pay off, in no small part by making Duke the hospital of choice for enough patients and doctors that it can obtain more favorable contract terms from HMOs for patient care. "What we need is sufficient market clout that we cannot be rolled over," he says...
Chanda K. Ho '01 said she thinks theorganization will pack more clout because of itsmulti-dimensional demographic diversity...
...more like full-fledged, bare-knuckles players in the power game. They have been at the table long enough now to understand how the game is played. Black members of Congress like Maxine Waters and John Conyers Jr. are acting as if they really believe they have the clout to thwart the Republicans' plans to cut short Clinton's presidency--and they may be right. Clinton's popularity among black voters is the cornerstone of his high approval ratings, his best defense against impeachment. If Clinton stays in power, he will owe the black community big time...