Word: clout
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...country was awash with snickers when Goldwater senior once suggested a little nuclear clout to defoliate those Cong-stuffed Vietnam jungles...
...soon as it started flying from Key West to Havana in 1927, Pan Am became the high and mighty among U.S. air carriers. Patrician Boss Juan Trippe maintained what was virtually his own state department to negotiate landing rights with foreign governments; at home, he had the political clout of a board of directors that has always included more former high Government and military officers than that of probably any other U.S. company. Among the current crew: Cyrus Vance, Alfred Gruenther, William Scranton...
...Clout and Cash. Du Pont is virtually free of long-term debt, and has the clout and cash to acquire practically anything-its assets amount to $3.3 billion -but the Justice Department would almost certainly oppose any sizable expansion by merger. At the same time, Du Font's ability to grow from within is checked by its management philosophy. Because the company does not believe in competing with customers, it rules out any major "forward integration" into finished goods like textiles. "Backward integration" into oil and the raw materials that it converts into chemicals has not seemed profitable enough...
...dodge a potentially explosive question. While even his critics applaud Kennedy's innate decency and amiability, his gaffes have deprived him and his office of political weight in the Cabinet and before Congress-at the very time when the nation sorely needs a Treasury Secretary who has clout...
Loyalty Test. Despite his blunder, Mitchell again proved his clout with Nixon. The President, Mitchell and Presidential Counsel John Ehrlichman went to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover's house on Washington's Linnean Avenue for dinner at midweek. Mitchell bore down heavily on the point that the Haynsworth affair was being turned into a political attack on the President. Agreed on that premise, Nixon and his Attorney General decided to cast the issue as a test of presidential prerogative and party loyalty. The Senate Republicans who opposed Haynsworth and those who had strong misgivings about him were selected...