Word: clout
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...among parties on both sides. He sees those selfish pursuits in the Vorster government and among its economic partners abroad, and also among black leaders in the surrounding "front-line" countries who, he suspects, even if black majority rule arrives in Rhodesia, will continue to bend to South African clout...
Whoever becomes First Minister of the interim government, it will have to be someone who has the clout to end the fighting. If he does not, the whole settlement, with its promise of a breakthrough in southern Africa's racial stalemate, will be in jeopardy...
...togetherness that Americans hope for from tennis, it is the American husband. Until the advent of Women's Liberation, when men began to be accused of a certain piggish dominance again, a sociologist's easy generalization about the American middle-class husband was that he had lost his domestic clout. It is hardly more than a decade, in fact, since wits began describing the commuting husband as a "yard man with sex privileges." Now it appears that whatever happened in the den and kitchen, this henpecked hacker remained master and monster through it all?at least on the courts...
...didn't work." Concluding that "the nomination contest is for all practical purposes over," he said he would support Ford, who had assured him that he would name a vice-presidential candidate who is "philosophically compatible with the mainstream of the Republican Party." Reed probably carries enough clout to make the difference in Mississippi...
South Korea's growing but still fragile economy needs the foreign exchange and bargaining clout that the contracts bring. Totally dependent on imported oil and relying heavily on trade with Japan, South Korea's 35 million people suffered badly from the 1973 Arab oil embargo. The slackening pace of Japan's economic growth also contributed to a South Korean trade deficit of $2.4 billion in 1974. But largely as a result of what Businessman Choi calls the kiri-komi (swashbuckling assault) on the Middle East, South Korea's trade deficit for the first quarter...