Word: clouts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...course, getting a team together goes not mean the battle is over. Determining whose squad plays next provides many undergraduates with their first exposure to the basic elements of international relations. No tribunal with effective power governs conflicting actors in the IAB, so "Might becomes Right," and those without clout have to wait their turn...
Bert Lance's continuing ties with his old friend Jimmy Carter are well known in the U.S., but on foreign trips the former budget chief can flash more tangible evidence of his White House clout: a diplomatic passport bearing the serial number X-000065 and the assertion, "The bearer is abroad on a diplomatic assignment for the Government of the United States of America." As it happens. Lance's most recent missions abroad, including a trip to London and the Middle East to help Arab interests angling for control of a $2.2 billion bank holding company in the Washington...
...society is inevitable in France. The question remains whether this will come about through revolution or reform. French bourgeois governments have historically failed to take the necessary steps to allow socialists and communists to take over the reins of government peacefully. If the left does not receive substantial political clout after the March elections, if social reforms are neglected, another revolutionary chapter in French history might--at some indefinite point in time--have to be written...
...just one voice in a thousand outside the government telling them what to do, and I'm without clout, at that, so it's hard to get listened to," Fisher says...
Your comment that I have "far more clout" as ranking minority member on the Senate Human Resources Committee than the committee's chairman, Senator Harrison A. Williams Jr. of New Jersey, is wrong and misleading...