Word: clout
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While some of those visiting North Oaks are legitimate contenders, political pros cannot believe that others, such as Cisneros and Collins, have enough experience or clout outside their own constituencies to be under serious consideration. Mondale heightened these misgivings by saying that he might pick someone who had not come to North Oaks...
...three of the past 46 years, and its six-day-a-week mix of gossipy tidbits, hand-me-down gag lines and occasional nuggets of hard news, all separated by three-dot ellipses, is the closest thing to universal wisdom in the variegated Bay Area. Yet for all his clout as San Francisco's arbiter of the quotidian, Caen makes modest claims for his 1,000 words of items and sightems. "A lot of people time their boiled eggs by my column," he says. "It's just the right length...
...Reagan 'planned his barbecue for the capital's diplomats long ago. As so often happens in statecraft, the event was seized as a device through which Reagan might send a message of sincerity to the Kremlin. In a way, Dobrynin is being tested. Does he have any clout in Moscow now? Does he even know who is in charge there...
...longer a minority, the Sephardim gain political clout...
...Chairman Allen Neuharth. Gannett is the biggest U.S. newspaper chain, with 85 dailies, but its papers are mostly in smaller markets, and the combined circulation of 3.5 million before USA Today had translated into scant national influence. By launching a coast-to-coast daily, Gannett would gain visibility and clout, even if the undertaking would require steep start-up costs, arduous technical demands in printing at dozens of locations, and a hard sell to persuade advertisers to accept a new kind of vehicle...