Word: clout
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...Detroit and worked hard to improve race relations, especially between black residents and a white-dominated police force. Three years later, Henry Ford led the formation of Detroit Renaissance, a group made up of chief executives of the major corporations in the city. This power elite had the financial clout to rebuild the downtown, which was so deserted after the riots that Young says: "You could have shot a cannon down any of the major thoroughfares at night and not hit anyone...
Pfeiffer's days at the network had been numbered for several months. Griffiths wanted to fire her, but Silverman made it clear that if Pfeiffer went, he would leave too. Silverman's own clout within the network had slipped in recent months, however, and he was no longer able or willing to protect...
...YORK theater critics don't seem to have the same clout they used to. They panned American Hostage when it opened last November but today, 255 performances later, the show still packs 'em in at the old Schubert in Tehran, across the street from Sardik...
...seems clear that Robert Redford has decided to place his talents and his star's clout more or less in the service of ideals he believes in. Though he is happy to entertain an audience, it had better be in the context of a story containing a liberal, humane moral. Somehow his roles -whether as investigative reporter or up-the-organization cowboy-suit him in his maturity, as they do not most other leading men, about whom the sweet odors of Bel Air and Rodeo Drive cling. There is something of the authentic knothead about Redford...
...orders of line officers. This is no longer true, but the party still dominates the military. No professional soldier serves on either the Politburo or the Central Committee's powerful Secretariat. (Defense Minister Ustinov's primary military experience was managing defense-related industries.) Not that the military is without clout. There appears to be a symbiotic relationship between the military and the party leadership that Rand Corporation Expert Benjamin Lambeth sums up as a "mutual accommodation in which the military accepts the legitimacy of the party's supremacy in return for getting resources for force development...