Word: clouts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...other senior aides to promote ideas based on national polls he pays for himself. His former chief aide, Tom Freedman, just joined the White House Domestic Policy Council to do for it what he did for Morris: scour the country for promising ideas to turn into federal initiatives. Morris' clout is nothing like what it used to be, but he is said by a knowledgeable source to be talking to the President monthly. Clinton has recently dismissed some Morrisiana as worthless--but he often did that during Dick's heyday. Nevertheless, by constantly giving advice to Clinton...
...Nike gets its clout in a lot of other ways," Hochman said. "It doesn't need to get it from kids...
...trying to buy its way onto the dial, as channels like Fox News and Animal Planet (from the creators of the Discovery Channel) have done by offering money to cable systems in return for carrying them. Yet CBS does have some potential clout to wield. It could hold up permission for cable systems to retransmit local CBS stations unless they agree to pick up Eye on People--a tactic the other broadcast networks have used in order to get wider distribution for their start-up cable ventures...
Netanyahu was always an outsider in the Likud hierarchy, which left him without the old-boy network essential to every Prime Minister. Instead, he surrounded himself with remarkably undistinguished loyalists who did not have the cleverness or clout to head off mistakes or remedy them. Last week, just before the bombing, the police were getting ready to deliver their verdict on allegedly corrupt deals behind his misguided appointment of a thoroughly underqualified Attorney General. Even if Netanyahu escapes direct taint, two close aides could face indictment...
There are Russian businessmen richer than Boris Berezovsky but few with more political clout. More than anyone else in Russia today, Berezovsky personifies the way two dark spheres--the often violent world of Big Business and the secretive nature of Kremlin politics--intersect. Confidants of President Boris Yeltsin have come and gone, but Berezovsky's influence has not waned...