Word: clout
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...White House where clout isoften measured by how well you can keep a secret, few men are as furtive and powerful as I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff. A dapper, compact man with an easy smile, Libby has worked for Cheney on and off since the late 1980s. But that only partly explains his swat: during the past five years, he has often been the last man to speak to the last man to speak to President George W. Bush before a decision gets made. Libby is so spooky that even today...
...average investor has no real clout with management,” USA TODAY financial columnist John Waggoner writes in an e-mail...
...from the country’s most prominent universities will not go unnoticed. But it will take more than friend-of-the-court briefs to undo the law. The University should stop letting other schools fight a battle that the Harvard community clearly cares about and bring its considerable clout to bear on behalf of its students...
...utmost intolerance," he told Time. "But I don't want that intolerance to be an obstacle in Turkey's road toward the E.U." Since coming to power in 2002, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has introduced reforms - such as Kurdish cultural rights and curbs on the military's political clout - in a bid to meet E.U. standards. But the country's old guard still sets its face against change. "There has been a huge amount of legal reform, but it takes time for the mental transformation to sink in," says one senior Turkish official. Cengiz Aktar, a professor at Galatasaray...
Kudos on an accurate observation: Cliques never go away, nor is their clout confined to the high school arena. But never fear: the formulaic alignments of jocks, nerds, surfers, and hackers do not have much of a chance of haunting you during your time here...