Word: clout
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...that I can remember. I haven't got all the facts. I frankly do not think that the security police would beat a man. It is possible for a policeman to react to a prisoner who starts with violence-a person who gets a clout or something like that. Policemen never really start the trouble. Policemen try and stop...
...legislative success is the hallmark of another revolt in America, this time by the aged. The 1960s was the decade of aroused youth; the 1970s may well belong to their grandparents. Some 23 million Americans, about 10% of the population, are 65 or over. Numbers alone give them political clout, because they vote more consistently than younger groups. In addition, they have begun to organize with all the skill and determination of other embattled minorities. Such burgeoning pressure groups as the Gray Panthers, the National Council on the Aging, the National Association of Retired Federal Employees and the National Council...
...Ball a few months ago found a way to meet the letter of the law without losing control-the r individual owners of the bank holding company's stock-including Ball himself -voted to buy the estate's stock for $18 a share. Thus Ball maintains his clout in the banks' affairs. In an eleventh-hour effort to wrench control from Ball, Mills came up with another buyer, Hugh Culverhouse, Mills' law partner, who offered $18.50 a share. Despite Culverhouse's higher bid, the court refused to block the Ball-engineered sale of the stock...
...York's political crowd, she stands out like Diane Keaton at a fat farm. Frank, enthusiastic and relentlessly energetic, she promised to bring new clout to the post of city council president...
...Israelis to back off, however, the U.S. is bound to lose a bit of credibility among the Arabs. Explained an American diplomat involved in the situation: "If we can't get them out of there, the Arabs are bound to think, 'Well, Washington's got no clout with this government. If the Americans can't get a couple of tanks and soldiers out of southern Lebanon, how are they ever going to get them off the West Bank?' " How indeed...