Word: clout
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...fully reflected in Gromyko's mood, which one U.S. official described as "disappointed and unhappy." The Russians are not in a very strong bargaining position in the Arab world at the moment. Not only have they lost their influence in Egypt, but they also do not have much clout in Syria, even though some 3,000 Soviet technicians remain there. Ironically, the Soviets seem to be turning to the U.S. for help in getting back on the Middle East diplomatic track...
...have been a bit thin, but the name carried some clout. For the first time since her $56.75-per-week job as cameragirl for the old Washington Times-Heraldin 1953, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, 46, has rejoined the working class as a consulting editor for Viking Press. Jackie, who now collects $250,000 each year from the estate of her late husband, Aristotle Onassis, will concentrate on "initiating books, finding ideas and writers," according to Viking President Thomas Guinzburg, 49, a longtime Jackie friend who declined to discuss his new employee's salary. Lest anyone think that working will...
...rule in favor of the power plant and grant the zoning variances that are needed for the plant's immediate construction. It will probably do so in part because it wants the housing project, but mostly because those in opposition to the power plant don't carry much political clout in City Hall...
...population of Boston now feels that it has lost control not only of its schools but also of an important part of its life. The white neighborhoods, once highly influential in both the church and city hall, feel abandoned by city leaders. South Boston lost much of its political clout with the death of Cardinal Cushing in 1970. South Boston whites, once Kennedy loyalists, now curse Ted Kennedy because he supports the court; they think that Mayor Kevin White has sold them out, and have mocked him as "Mayor Black...
There are other stories. One resourceful proctor managed to transfer a non-athletic freshman out of the then jocky, preppy Greenough to the coveted sanctuary of a single room in Hurlbut. "I'll never forget him for that," the freshman vows fervently. Another proctor who had some sort of clout with the administration kept several kids miraculously off academic probation for the entire year. "I don't know how he did it," one of them marvels. "It was a beautiful sleight-of-hand...