Word: clouts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...togetherness that Americans hope for from tennis, it is the American husband. Until the advent of Women's Liberation, when men began to be accused of a certain piggish dominance again, a sociologist's easy generalization about the American middle-class husband was that he had lost his domestic clout. It is hardly more than a decade, in fact, since wits began describing the commuting husband as a "yard man with sex privileges." Now it appears that whatever happened in the den and kitchen, this henpecked hacker remained master and monster through it all?at least on the courts...
...didn't work." Concluding that "the nomination contest is for all practical purposes over," he said he would support Ford, who had assured him that he would name a vice-presidential candidate who is "philosophically compatible with the mainstream of the Republican Party." Reed probably carries enough clout to make the difference in Mississippi...
South Korea's growing but still fragile economy needs the foreign exchange and bargaining clout that the contracts bring. Totally dependent on imported oil and relying heavily on trade with Japan, South Korea's 35 million people suffered badly from the 1973 Arab oil embargo. The slackening pace of Japan's economic growth also contributed to a South Korean trade deficit of $2.4 billion in 1974. But largely as a result of what Businessman Choi calls the kiri-komi (swashbuckling assault) on the Middle East, South Korea's trade deficit for the first quarter...
...control of all aspects of their business, from wellhead to gas pump, has given the industry too much power to manipulate supplies and prices and reap excessive profits at the expense of consumers. During the past year or so, the efforts of congressional Democrats to curb the companies' clout and inject more competition into the industry has gained increasing support. Last week, in the most far-reaching move yet, the Senate Judiciary Committee, by a vote of 8 to 7, sent to the full Senate a bill requiring the breakup of the 18 largest oil corporations...
...essential if Italy is to bring down its 25% annual inflation rate, namely, British-style wage restraints (see following story). The Communists also claim to be in the best position to reason with Italy's unruly trade unions, but many Italians doubt whether the P.C.I, has the necessary clout...