Word: clout
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...Extra Clout. Kaunda's action has strengthened his position at home as the man who took the mines out of the hands of foreigners. Not that he really needed the extra clout. Earlier this year, Kaunda pushed through a new constitution that turned the country into a one-party state - the one party being his own United National Independence Party...
...lobby's clout was also enhanced when the voting age was reduced to 18 years in 1971. That added over 1,000,000 youths to the state's voting rolls. Says the U.C.'s official Sacramento lobbyist, Jay Michael: "Now legislators really have to listen to this group because their constituency poses a voting threat...
...simultaneously developed a reputation for clout in the dining room. A typical Ruthian breakfast: a porterhouse steak, four fried eggs and a large portion of fried potatoes, washed down with a pot of coffee and a pint of bourbon. Between games of a doubleheader, he would mix a quart of pickled eels (donated by Teammate Lou Gehrig's mother) with a quart of chocolate ice cream and devour the concoction...
...result, the fee on an investor's order to buy or sell 100 shares of a $50 stock, for example, will go up from $65 to $71.50. After the 1975 cutoff date, however, small-and medium-size investors will have some of the shopping clout now available only to those who deal in orders of $300,000 or more−mostly banks, pension funds and other institutional investors. These large-scale buyers and sellers can bargain for commissions that omit charges for services like providing research and holding stocks in custody that many investors may not want or need...
...movie is thus indebted less to Disney than to underground cartoonists like R. Crumb. Director-Writer Bakshi, in fact, was responsible for the lamentable Fritz the Cat, a feature-length film about one of Crumb's most famous creations without any of Crumb's clout...