Word: clout
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Powell supplied the clout, with three hits--one a homer--and three runs batted in, while southpaw Mike Cuellar pitched well with men on base to keep the Oriole express one game behind the New York Yankees, who were also winning, 2-1, over the Cleveland Indians...
...Council and the OMB will most likely result in a change in the men who run their operations. Council Director Kenneth Cole Jr., 36, who also serves as the President's top domestic affairs adviser, is expected to leave soon. Cole, a former advertising man, simply lacks the clout and political experience that Ford will demand in the new job. Cole will probably be replaced by what one presidential adviser calls "an alter-ego type of person"-a seasoned political figure who thinks very much like Ford...
Under the circumstances it seems obvious that the junta in Portugal, having lost the war on the ground, has neither the military capability nor the political clout to dictate the course of events in Mozambique; the junta's position is even weaker in Guinea-Bissau, where African nationalists unilaterally declared the country independent in September 1973 and have had the succour of international recognition by over eighty nations. African nationalists in Angola have, through the urgings of the Organization of African Unity, recently agreed to band together to fight for their independence. All in all the story of African resistance...
...leaning officer-engineer and chief ideologist for the A.F.M. Later in the week, Spinola announced the new 16-member Cabinet. Though Spinola had never been an active member of the A.F.M., he was pushed into power by the group because of his great prestige, and obviously still retains considerable clout...
...newly vocal conservative element in the U.S. Catholic Church, however, all too many liberals have not only remained in the church but moved quietly into control of the chanceries, the seminaries and parochial schools. Moreover, conservatives complain, some bishops are now wielding against the right the same hierarchical clout that they once used against the left...