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...country's wealth, used to take an active part in politics. He sat as a liberal in Parliament and financed the opposition Progressive Federal Party. But his efforts came to nothing. Though the corporations that the English speakers control might be expected to give them considerable political clout, the Afrikaner regime runs the country. When asked to explain the gap between English economic power and political impotence, Anglo American's current chairman Gavin Relly says simply, "We're from the wrong tribe...
Becoming the first Chicago mayor to win re-election since Daley did it twelve years ago, Washington gained the kind of clout he will need to recast the city council and the shattered Democratic machine to his liking. But Chicago's bitter political divisions remain: the mayor captured an estimated 95.6% of the black vote but just 20% of the white vote...
...troubled President could endure: "Have you looked at the condition of the Treasury, at the amount of money it contains, at the appropriations already made by Congress, at the amount of other unavoidable claims upon it?" That President was Andrew Jackson in 1830, and he had enough political clout to make his veto of the Maysville Road Bill stick. The graveled National Road that aroused Old Hickory's ire has, of course, evolved into today's 44,000-mile Interstate Highway System. But the 19th century conflict between pork barrel and public purse endures as a staple of American democracy...
...mattered. He began as a commercial artist, became for a time (between about 1962 and 1968) a fine artist with something akin to genius and then lapsed back into a barely disguised form of commercial art. His sense of timing, his grip on how to give an image graphic clout, and his fixation on style as an end in itself all came out of his years of advertising and display work during the '50s for I. Miller, Lord & Taylor, Glamour and Vogue. By the end of this period he was rich, professionally famous and yearning for recognition as a serious...
...regaining a grip on world oil prices. The group's agreement in December on a 7% production cut, to 15.8 million bbl. a day, managed to push prices even higher than OPEC's goal of $18 per bbl. But by last week it was clear that the group's clout had slipped once again, as world oil prices dipped as low as $15 per bbl. Several OPEC countries appeared to be cheating on the production agreement by overpumping, said oil experts...