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Cambridge's state legislators will be carrying a lot more clout around Beacon Hill in the next few months, after newly-elected House Speaker George Keverian '53 (D-Everett) announced key leadership appointments over the weekend...
...result, the Japanese are sending the funds back overseas by making loans, buying foreign stocks and bonds, and building factories in countries around the globe. Once merely a master manufacturer, Japan is on the way to becoming the world's premier investor and creditor. Its economic and financial clout could eventually rival the power held by Britain in the 19th century and the U.S. after World...
...come alone." A few weeks ago she agreed to spend time with drug-addicted inmates at a jail in the heartland. But the new gusto goes beyond pageantry and photo opportunities. For Nancy Reagan has become a forceful figure within the Administration, and in recent months her White House clout has become strikingly apparent...
Even before she decided that she could handle four more years, the First Lady had been exercising her formidable influence in the White House. Her clout is only rarely applied to substance or ideology in a direct way. Rather, her agenda is highly personalized. Nancy Reagan is single-minded in her intention "to protect Ronnie," and to that end she is a hard-eyed judge of the officials serving him. "Her first concern is the people around the President," says one of those people, Reagan Strategist Stuart Spencer, "because she knows that they are the ones who will make things...
...Soviet military's growing clout cast Ustinov in the role of a Kremlin kingmaker: his support was apparently critical in giving the edge to former KGB Chief Andropov in the race to succeed Brezhnev. Ustinov emerged as a decisive player in the Chernenko regime, making up for the new leader's limited experience in military affairs. At one point this year, when Chernenko's health appeared to falter, the Defense Minister was viewed as a possible interim leader who could oversee the transfer of power to a younger generation...