Word: clouts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would deepen the budget deficit, kick up inflation and irrecoverably lead to recession. He opposes even the $25 billion cut and advocates starting at a lower figure, say $15 billion. But Ullman is not likely to prevail over O'Neill. Earnest, hard-working Ullman lacks the clout wielded by his predecessor, Wilbur Mills, in part because of recent reforms of House rules, which weakened all committee chairmen while strengthening the Speaker...
...personal staff of 50. In addition, he has increased his own considerable influence by relying on such able committee aides as Don Zimmerman, minority counsel to the Senate Human Resources Committee. Javits, the ranking minority member on the committee, has used Zimmerman to develop far more clout, especially on labor matters, than the committee chairman, Democratic Senator Harrison Williams of New Jersey...
...Saudi Arabia, which pumps some one-third of all OPEC oil, alone carries the clout to turn production on or off in sufficient quantities to dictate prices. The lesson of last year's split in OPEC ranks, when eleven countries pushed prices higher than Saudi Arabia wanted and then had to pull back after the Saudis increased production and sales, has been learned. During elaborate dances in the shadows over the past seven weeks, several key oil producers, particularly Iran, which had previously been a hawk for higher prices, agreed to follow Yamani...
...hope to get things moving," announced Françoise Giroud when she was appointed France's State Secretary for la Condition Féminine in 1974. Alas, Giroud, who is a co-founder of the French magazines Elle and L'Express, eventually decided that journalists have more clout in France than politicians. So, after leaving the government last March, she returned to the typewriter and banged out The Comedy of Power-a scathing attack on French politicians. As for her former boss, President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, Giroud says, if "an atom bomb fell...
James McIntyre Jr., acting Director of the Office of Management and Budget. McIntyre, who was Carter's state budget director in Georgia, was at first retiring in his new post, but he has gained confidence and clout and improved his chances of staying on past the presentation of the 1979 budget, due in January. In policy debates, he plays the devil's advocate, continually arguing against new spending or new programs...