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...March 11]. While enforcement of royalties for artists may be feasible on resale by galleries and auction houses, it would be extremely difficult on private resale. Perhaps what artists need is a Victor Herbert (or a Rauschenberg) to lead them into an ASCAP-type organization that may have some clout and a capability to police all resales...
...savings and loan commission and a division of savings and loans supervision and seven often overlapping agencies that deal with clean water. When members of the redundant committees would go to Washington to plead for appropriations or testify on bills, they sometimes presented opposing testimony. "We had no clout in Washington because the Federal Government didn't know what the hell Missouri wanted," says Bond...
...proposal; Slingerland had said all along that most Expos classes had well over 20 students, and had cited 15 as the ideal class size. So when Fox told her that he had calculated the average Expos class size to be about 17.5 students, he took a lot of the clout out of her argument...
...government positions in Greece--Ioannides, Androutsopoulos, Gizikis--were all trained in the U.S. Tom Pappas of Boston, a Greek-American businessman, was instrumental in assuring Androutsopoulos his position as the new premier. Pappas is the largest single investor in Greek enterprise, and controls a bloc of industry with a clout like ITT's in the States. During an interview with the Greek newspaper Apogevmatini in 1968, he was asked whether it was true that he belonged to the CIA. His blunt reply reads, "Of course it is. And I am very proud...
...fraud, the largest single case in SEC history. In its case against Mitchell and Stans, the Government argues that Vesco made a secret, illegal contribution of $200,000 in cash to the President's campaign in 1972, and that in return, the two Nixon lieutenants used their political clout-though both had left the Government by that time to work on the President's re-election campaign-to try to ease Vesco's troubles with...