Word: clouts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President's endorsement of the three bills provided a needed lift for labor, which has been generally outflanked in its legislative battles this year by a revitalized coalition of business lobbyists. At the same time, labor has begun to accept the fact that it no longer wields the clout it once had among congressional Democrats; it needs presidential support and is willing to settle for less than its earlier grandiose goals to obtain...
Accordingly, Saudi Arabia is emerging from decades of isolation to exercise a powerful influence for stability in the Middle East, and is becoming the closest and most helpful ally of the U.S. among the Arab nations. Economically, the Saudis demonstrated their clout last week by forcing the majority of the 13 members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries to forgo a scheduled 5% hike in oil prices. In December the Saudis split OPEC by refusing to go along with its decision to raise prices by 10% on Jan. 1 and another 5% on July 1; instead, the Saudis...
...I.A.M. chief, Winpisinger, 52, automatically becomes a member of the labor federation's 35-man executive council. There he will be in a position to fight against what he regards as Big Labor's drawbacks: stagnating union membership, growing conservatism, weakening political clout -and George Meany...
...through Haverford College, had a B average, a 652 LSAT score and an excellent work record since graduation. In fact, every one of our decisions is objective and reviewable by the public. Each is based on individual merit and is neither helped nor hurt by one's "political clout," race, religion, national origin, name, age, sex or station in life...
Most of the women on the Harvard women's studies committee think a Harvard program needs departmental status to give it political clout. But spokesmen for the UMass, Penn, and Barnard programs say they are pleased with their non-departmental rank, because it allows an interdisciplinary approach, and allows them to pressure other departments. Parlee does say that she would prefer to see a regular department, but the Barnard committee opted for a program as the most easy route...