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Schmidt is likely to be an equally loquacious host in Bonn. Strengthened by the results of last March's parliamentary elections, French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing also has been exercising more clout. The team of Schmidt and Giscard, in fact, has raised worries among the others about an emerging "EC directorate" composed of the Community's two most powerful members...
...Burns (1970-78) and now Miller-have caused the other governors to fade into public obscurity, but they still have influence. Next to Miller on the current board, J. (for John) Charles Partee, a former head of the Fed staff and wise student of the economy, has the most clout. Henry Wallich, a former Yale professor, is the board's contact man with foreign central banks. A refugee from Germany, he lived through insane inflation there in the 1920s; he likes to tell of the day that his mother handed him a billion-mark bill so that he could...
...nation's labor unions have been dwindling in recent years in both membership and political clout. But they mustered all the lobbying power they could behind the Labor Reform Act of 1978. Pressured by AFL-CIO Boss George Meany, President Carter gave the bill forceful, if not all-out, support. But businessmen, large and small, rallied strong opposition, arguing that the bill would put them at a disadvantage with Big Labor and lead to a wave of organizing, particularly in the South, where unions have been weak. Last week, after the bill had been stalled for 19 days...
...much of those sums could be penalized remains under dispute, but HEW clearly had the clout to change what was happening on the fields of the nation very quickly indeed. Instead, the department has been acting with more caution than deliberate speed. What constitutes a discrimination-free athletic program turned out to be difficult to define. Title IX raised the hackles of male athletic directors and many of their Congressmen. The fear of the N.C.A.A., which has fought Title IX from the beginning, is that the Government would destroy the men's athletic programs, while trying to build...
...satisfactory regulatory process is still an open question. Less uncertain is Harvard's future role. As a sponsor of much of the important recombinant DNA research conducted in the country, Harvard has a huge stake in this issue. The University will clearly continue to use its considerable lobbying clout to shape the outcome...