Word: clouts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...without the University. "Women's research is low on Harvard's totem pole, but we can go to the Ford, Carnegie and Lilly and be the first on the queue," Wolfman says. In other words, Radcliffe's separate voice with the government and with corporations gives it more clout in seeking funds for women's needs that would get buried in any Harvard dossier...
Even though the 33 magazines have a joint circulation of 60 million, one editor at least had few illusions about their collective clout, especially head to head with Opposition Leader Phyllis Schlafly. Says Cosmo's Helen Gurley Brown: "All the women's magazines together may not be as effective as Phyllis Schlafly with her rabble-rousing TV appearances. But we hope reason will prevail...
...Detroit Mayor Coleman Young vs. Georgia's Julian Bond, Chip Carter vs. former Congressman Allard Lowenstein, Miss Lillian vs. all comers. It was White House clout against Kennedy cachet, a rush of federal block grants and prestigious appointments against a hint of similar largesse tomorrow. It was who had the buses and got enough of them to the polls. It was, alas, Florida and its distressingly premature launching of the 1980 presidential race...
...toast was yet another reminder to Washington that oil wealth has given Mexico a new clout, which López Portillo is quite willing to use when it suits his purpose. In June a Mexican exploratory well in the Bay of Campeche exploded, uncorking millions of barrels of crude, some of which has washed up on beaches in Texas. The U.S. has argued that Mexico should help pay cleanup costs. Last August, Robert C. Krueger, who was designated Special Ambassador for Mexican Affairs to assist Ambassador Patrick Lucey in overseeing the broad range of issues that have arisen between...
Actress Jane Fonda Saturday told women at the opening ceremonies of the Women for Economic Change conference that women workers to use their political clout to reshape the economy through a massive labor movement...