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Some seniors say they will reserve judgment until they can test the clout of the Harvard name in the professional world. Others say the services provided are really not worth the money, but the cost is no worse than that of any comparable school...
With that kind of clout, Gatorade executives seem unperturbed by the new entries in their field. They note that 50 to 60 brands of competing sports drinks have been introduced -- and have disappeared -- during the past decade. "Competition has been great for us," says Peggy Dyer, Gatorade's vice president of marketing. "Competition makes us better...
...Hispanics have gained tremen dous economic clout recently," Estrada said. "However, Hispanic issues are being largely ignored at this year's elections. We need to be unified and be able to work together to get our issues advanced...
Nowhere across la Cosa Nostra is there a leader with the clout and thuggish charisma of John Gotti. Following the verdict, Gotti's distraught daughter, Vicki Agnelli, hurled an angry comment at reporters: "My father is the last of the Mohicans. They don't make men like him anymore. They never will." Law- enforcement officials surely hope she is right...
...than the 22 seats they now have in the 650-seat House. If called to form a coalition Cabinet, however, they are prepared to exact a price: political autonomy for Scotland and Wales and a Parliament elected by proportional representation, the latter promising to give Ashdown's faithful greater clout. Since a proportional system would rob the major parties of strength, neither Major nor Kinnock favors it, though Labour has bowed to the idea of autonomy for Wales and restive Scotland. If a hung Parliament emerges, a Labour-Liberal Democrat match is the more likely partnership...