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...hope to get things moving," announced Françoise Giroud when she was appointed France's State Secretary for la Condition Féminine in 1974. Alas, Giroud, who is a co-founder of the French magazines Elle and L'Express, eventually decided that journalists have more clout in France than politicians. So, after leaving the government last March, she returned to the typewriter and banged out The Comedy of Power-a scathing attack on French politicians. As for her former boss, President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, Giroud says, if "an atom bomb fell...
James McIntyre Jr., acting Director of the Office of Management and Budget. McIntyre, who was Carter's state budget director in Georgia, was at first retiring in his new post, but he has gained confidence and clout and improved his chances of staying on past the presentation of the 1979 budget, due in January. In policy debates, he plays the devil's advocate, continually arguing against new spending or new programs...
...oldest and richest University in the nation, Harvard packs tremendous institutional clout in academic, government and corporate circles. The symbolic, as well as direct economic import, of an activist stand by Harvard in favor of the human rights of South Africa's black majority cannot be underestimated. The students, alumni, faculty and other employees of the University must help push Harvard toward the socially responsible position on this issue...
...Goliath in the United States Senate--a senator, usually chairman of an important committee, able to influence single-handedly the future of a whole series of legislative proposals. There are various strains of "influence" in Congress and this kind is not to be confused with the organizational, vote-corraling clout that Lyndon Johnson possessed as Majority Leader in the 1950s. It is, instead, the old bottleneck route to power. Certain members have a stranglehold on those committees through which pass the major issues...
Carter has also advocated making the hiring of illegal aliens illegal. But H.R. 9531, Carter's legislation, does not provide criminal penalties for hiring aliens, only fines And nothing in the legislation spells out just how the employer is to ascertain the status of his workers. Given the political clout of the employers and the weak provisions of the bill, it is highly unlikely that this proposal would affect the employment of illegal aliens...