Word: clout
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Recognizing their susceptibility to bearing the brunt of the costs hospitals, while admitting they do not have the clout of the seniors' groups, have still been lobbying extensively in Washington...
Unfortunately, the well-respected people were too busy, or didn't think of it, or didn't have the talent and the clout to pull it off. Louis Farrakhan did, and for that, we should be infinitely grateful...
...THEIR VAUNTED POLITICAL clout, elderly Americans responded with an odd silence last summer when Republicans announced that they planned to whack $270 billion out of anticipated Medicare spending over the next seven years. That is partly because the G.O.P. had contrived until recently to keep the details secret. But now the proposals are real, and lawmakers such as freshman Republican Michael Flanagan last week found the docility wearing off when they returned to their districts. In Chicago outraged seniors parked a steamroller in front of Flanagan's office to symbolize G.O.P. efforts to rush the cuts through Congress. In Connecticut...
Other black actors--Wesley Snipes, Samuel L. Jackson, Laurence Fishburne--have drawn deserved critical acclaim, but none has achieved Washington's mix of box-office clout and acting craft. He is a black actor--proudly, fiercely so--who has succeeded in making that term merely descriptive, not professionally limiting. Few other actors of any color could sincerely say, as Washington does about fellow superstars Kevin Costner and Tom Cruise, "They haven't made any movies that I wanted to make. I haven't felt like I've missed anything." Yet he sees himself not as a standard-bearer but simply...
...Basically it just appears that Harvey Mansfield is using his clout to try to squash any opposition to him," Clayton said...