Word: clout
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...they don’t submit to the prevailing night scene. I’m not anti-feminist. I want to slice the issue such that women recognize their unique force on campus. The simple truth is that we don’t need to become men to gain clout. After all, I think I have social power therefore I have social power...
...Thus mergers have proliferated: Luxembourg-based Arcelor, currently the world's largest steel producer, was formed in 2002 through the merger of steel companies in Luxembourg, Spain and France. Corus emerged from the 1999 union of British Steel and Dutch firm Hoogovens. In order for steelmakers to wield sufficient clout, notes Tommy Trask, an analyst at Standard & Poor's, steel "needs to be as consolidated as the iron-ore suppliers or the end customers." Both Mittal and Wilbur Ross, the former investment banker and distressed investment specialist who helped create ISG, envisage a future where steel is dominated...
Motive: He says his parents urged it. He lives in Florida, so, unlike the rest, has swing-state clout...
...weeks ago, Carlos Lopes, the managing director of the Hotel Bel-Air, visited a fancy Los Angeles fireplace store accompanied by a renowned architect. A connoisseur of hearths and a frequent guest at the Bel-Air, the architect hoped to use his clout to persuade Lopes to buy a state-of-the-art gas model for the suite he always books. Lopes says he will probably grant the wish, just as he does nearly every request from his best customers...
...people listening to Jamal is Aslan, a senior officer in the anti-Russian forces during the first Chechen war from 1994 to 1996. He's clearly still in touch with Maskhadov's guerrillas. Aslan recalls that after the first war, he and other officers suspicious of the Wahhabis' growing clout volunteered to help wipe them out. Maskhadov seemed to agree with the idea, Aslan says, but ultimately, "he was too cowardly to give us the order." These days, the Wahhabis are clearly the more powerful of the two rebel factions. Despite Moscow's claims that life in Chechnya is returning...