Word: clout
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...appeal to whites, to the middle class and to men. In other words, the objection to our party is not that we speak to special groups, but that we are speaking to the wrong groups of people and that we must begin appealing to groups with more clout, with more money, with more votes. Now if there ever was a soulless solution to a party's problems, that's it...and I won't go along...
...Reagan Administration, though, the CEA has had little clout. The first chairman was Murray Weidenbaum of Washington University in St. Louis, who resigned after 18 months on the job because he had only minimal influence on policy. He was succeeded by Harvard's Martin Feldstein, the CEA chairman from October 1982 until last July. Unlike such previous advisers as Arthur Burns and Alan Greenspan, who sometimes disagreed with official policy behind closed doors in the Eisenhower and Ford Administrations, Feldstein broke ranks in public, calling for a tax increase and warning that the federal deficit could throttle the recovery...
...aggressive campaign to rescue the ailing machine has raised new fears about its corporate clout. Apple Chairman Steven Jobs hints that the company may be unloading its machines at prices below the cost of production. If so, it could be risking trouble with antitrust laws, which prohibit firms from selling products at a loss when the effect is to drive out competitors. The Government's decade-long antitrust case against IBM was dropped in January 1982, but a few industry executives, including Apple's Jobs and Benjamin Rosen, chairman of Compaq, are beginning to talk openly about another...
...make Massachusetts less profitable. The Bay State lost much of its industry in the last decade to high taxes, but Governor Dukakis has worked hard to keep the remaining businesses and to attract new high-tech industry by an intricate system of tax incentives and gubernatorial clout. Comparable worth legislation would severely weaken his program and compromise our future...
Thomas is respected at EPA, but will have less clout than Ruckelshaus in urging the Administration to place a higher priority on environmental issues...