Word: clouts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...discover that the Commerce portfolio gives her relatively little Cabinet clout. Reason: Treasury, State and other departments impinge heavily on Commerce territory in vital economic matters, from international trade to fiscal and monetary policy. She will have an opportunity to influence the Administration, however, as a member of the Economic Policy Board, which meets daily to advise the President...
...Daily News (circ. 374,000) learned of the Observer's predicament and got his own paper's approval to combine forces on the story. Green, 35, and another News reporter. Rob Warden, 36, started probing this month. Local lips unbuttoned. Says Hettinger: "The Daily News had enough clout that people opened up like Niagara Falls...
Chirac is looking to the legislative elections now scheduled for March 1978. If his clout is decisive in blocking the left from achieving a majority in Parliament, Chirac, the strongman of the majority, will overshadow Giscard and quite possibly unseat him in the 1981 presidential election. At the very least, he has already rekindled the potent mystique of Charles de Gaulle...
...Revelations. So far the scandal has been focused on cash gifts to U.S. politicians who might have clout in decisions involving aid to the Park Chung Hee regime in South Korea. New revelations continue to reinforce the impression that, as one congressional leader admitted, "there's a lot of Korean money around, and a lot of guys are involved." Among the main figures in the federal probes of Korean influence peddling: former Representative Richard Hanna of California, a silent partner in an import-export business run by Tongsun Park, a Washington-based Korean businessman with a yen for winning...
...Egyptian President Anwar Sadat was under severe attack from "rejectionist" Arabs for signing the second Sinai accord with Israel. Now that there is new talk about peace initiatives in the Middle East, the rejectionists have become isolated, and Sadat has emerged anew as a moderate Arab statesman with clout. At home, he feels secure enough to have authorized the formation of political parties. In an interview last week with TIME Correspondent Wilton Wynn, Sadat declared that he was ready to sign a formal document ending the state of belligerency with Israel...