Word: clouts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ironically, Loeb's multifaceted attack on inflation would have the most deleterious effects on groups with relatively little political clout (i.e., farmers, low-income laborers and the elderly), not the special-interest groups he so deplores...
Donald Warden, international businessman and lawyer and keynote speaker for the conference, said Saturday, "Black lawyers and businessmen especially need to develop alliances in Third World countries to develop political and economic clout in America...
...CORPORATION MUST now demonstrate, once and for all, its willingness to use the financial and institutional clout of the University in the service of social justice. In keeping with the United Front's minimum demands, Harvard should sell all stocks and bonds in U.S. banks which have kept the apartheid regime and its economy afloat through loans to the South African government. It must support, and where necessary sponsor, shareholder resolutions calling upon companies to withdraw from South Africa. Furthermore, Harvard must be prepared to employ divestiture as a subsequent action should companies refuse to respond to shareholder pressure. Finally...
...Bingham roundtripper, his second in two games, was a little less influential than his three-run poke against UMass (it came in the ninth to make the score 5-0), but not without a certain amount of clout, as it finally came to roost about twenty feet past the right field snow fence at Briggs Field...
Bert Lance was still fuming last week about the confiscation of Diplomatic Passport X-000065, that official piece of paper certifying to any doubter anywhere that, while he might be out of Government, he still carried clout as Jimmy Carter's good Georgia buddy. "I don't care about the damn passport," Lance told a friend in Atlanta. "But what a lousy way to handle it. They didn't even have the guts to tell me in person." He had, in fact, merely been informed by a bureaucratic letter that his passport had been "audited" and must...