Word: clout
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...members are longtime Kissinger colleagues -- and proteges -- who bring their own distinction: former Under Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger and retired General Brent Scowcroft, who was Kissinger's deputy and then successor as National Security Adviser. But what sets this firm apart from others is Kissinger, who retains his clout even though he was frozen out by the Reagan Administration. Kissinger is sole owner of the firm, which grosses an estimated $5 million a year...
...focus of modern art from Paris to New York; Moses-like, they led American art from provincial darkness into the radiance of history, opening nothing less than a new chapter in the epic of American self-esteem, and so on, and so forth. So much money and institutional clout have been poured into and around the pyramid that it now seems as fixed a historical construct as that of Cheops. Nevertheless, it has not commemorated all the artists equally. Kline is the proof...
...seems to be his ability to divine Reagan's true wishes on a given issue. Says Richard Lugar, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee: "I'm not certain who convinces whom. As you listen to Shultz, he makes you believe the President convinces him." The key to his clout, however, is more subtle: he has transformed Reagan's strong yet less-focused instincts into policies and actions. It is a skill that he learned on the job. When he was summoned to Foggy Bottom, he did not know Reagan well. But he began meeting privately with the President...
...hundreds of thousands of Central American refugees now living in Los Angeles, the resolution controverts the Reagan Administration's policy of deporting them. Last week Harold Ezell, Western regional commissioner of the INS, went to Washington to propose cutting off Los Angeles' federal funds in retaliation. Ezell has some clout in the Administration through his friendship with Attorney General Ed Meese, but his superiors at INS were in no hurry to support his proposal. "We're certainly not in favor of the resolution," said INS Spokesman Verne Jervis. "It tends to encourage illegal immigration." Still, he added, "it's more...
...plea for a bailout puts the Administration in a difficult situation. Such action would violate Reagan's free-market philosophy and could open the door to other federal-aid requests. But farmers have plenty of political clout, and troubles in farm credit could spread to other parts of the financial system. In congressional testimony last week, Agriculture Under Secretary Frank Naylor stopped short of proposing, as some White House advisers have suggested to the President, that the Treasury extend a $3 billion line of credit to the FCS. Instead, Naylor said that the system should use the surplus funds...