Word: clouts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Bilingualism isn't the only point of conflict. Hispanics in East Palo Alto are using their increasing clout to protest what they say is the schools' overall mediocre performance and the inefficiency of its bureaucracy, as well as alleged instances of cronyism and graft. Parents like Sanchez accuse Knight of stirring up racial resentments among blacks to deflect criticism about her administration. Knight dismisses her critics, saying, "Whenever whites are in charge of Latinos, they don't get the same kind of push that a black superintendent does. People...tend to distrust those who look more like them...
...CHRISTMAS WISH] Robin's charm + Disney's clout = Doubtfire grosses...
...bill's backers encouraged the Council to endorse the boycott because of the University's financial clout...
...also knew that the Gardner had no theft insurance--the last thing a thief needs; no insurance company to sell a stolen painting back to. And he "had inside information" about an insured Rembrandt hanging on loan in the Museum of Fine Arts, an institution with serious "political clout" that would send up "a huge hue and cry" and therefore was "the much, much more desirable place" to send into hysterics...
...heard traders tell me everything from "Biggs thinks this is the end" to "Biggs says get out now because the market's gonna crash today." No matter that Biggs had been wrong before, including a devastating get-out-of-tech call right at the bottom in 1996. Biggs has clout; he could do damage...