Word: clouts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...million bbl. daily; mandatory limits would probably result in gasoline rationing. Okun and other board members would increase Government financing of efforts to develop alternative energy sources. A multibillion-dollar effort would not only pay off in increased fuel supplies, but also bolster the nation's bargaining clout with OPEC; the cartel would recognize that its monopoly could not last forever. In any event, the nation must try to exploit all its energy options, including nuclear power...
...wounded by sniping from the White House's Georgia Mafia to be an effective envoy. Commerce Secretary Juanita Kreps is the Cabinet's best bridge between the White House and business, but, says Jack Carlson, "she heads a weak Cabinet department and does not have the clout...
Johnson said that despite the corporation's expressed policy, it "has not used its financial clout even once this year to promote the Sullivian principles, or disclouser of corporate activity in South Africa...
...postrevolutionary Iran, proximity to Ayatullah Khomeini probably counts more than any formal title. By that standard, few in the country carry more clout than Foreign Minister Ibrahim Yazdi, 47. An aide to Khomeini during the Ayatullah's exile in France, Yazdi returned to Tehran on the 747 that brought Khomeini home in triumph, and became Deputy Prime Minister for Revolutionary Affairs in the provisional government of Mehdi Bazargan. Although he gave up that post when he took over the Foreign Ministry, most Tehran observers believe that Yazdi's star is still ascending. A resident...
...million), 46% of Princeton's ($66 million), 4.1% of Oberlin's ($1 million), and 17% ($81 million) of the University of Michigan's. U.S. higher education cannot survive without Government money, but whoever pays the piper often gets to call the tune. Despite the best of intentions, Government clout in academia has grown, along with the red tape necessary to comply with the Government's rules...