Word: clouts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...move to strengthen their clout at the bargaining table, Harvard's dining hall workers this week angrily voted to reject the University's latest contract offer, and authorized their union negotiators to call a strike if Harvard does not propose better terms...
Instead, five years after the energy crisis hit, the Sisters' power seems unshaken. Politically their clout is reviving: President Carter, who denounced Big Oil on TV only last fall, is now making an all-out effort to sell natural gas legislation that would allow the companies to raise prices and profits. Economically, in the first three months of this year, the Sisters sold 38% of all the oil moving in world trade, about as large a proportion as ever. Rising output from Alaska, the North Sea and the Gulf of Mexico, where they dominate drilling, might even increase their...
...elected against the Curia." Active and retired Italians with Curial experience, and the skill in papal politics that goes with it, far outnumber non-Italians. Ethnic solidarity enhances the prospects of three Curial Italians: Sebastiano Baggio, 65; Paolo Bertoli, 70; and Sergio Pignedoli, 68. At the same time, Curial clout damages the candidacy of Argentina's Eduardo Pirono, who is Italian descended but heartily disliked by many of his fellow Cardinals in the Vatican because he is an individualist and an outsider. (Besides that, he is a "young" 57. None of the seven Popes elected in the past century...
Schmidt is likely to be an equally loquacious host in Bonn. Strengthened by the results of last March's parliamentary elections, French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing also has been exercising more clout. The team of Schmidt and Giscard, in fact, has raised worries among the others about an emerging "EC directorate" composed of the Community's two most powerful members...
...Burns (1970-78) and now Miller-have caused the other governors to fade into public obscurity, but they still have influence. Next to Miller on the current board, J. (for John) Charles Partee, a former head of the Fed staff and wise student of the economy, has the most clout. Henry Wallich, a former Yale professor, is the board's contact man with foreign central banks. A refugee from Germany, he lived through insane inflation there in the 1920s; he likes to tell of the day that his mother handed him a billion-mark bill so that he could...