Word: clouts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ankle and refused to let go. It was MCI's antitrust charges against the old Ma Bell that led to the breakup of AT&T's telephone monopoly. Now MCI is joining forces with British Telecommunications--Britain's formerly state-owned telephone company--to form an empire with the clout to go phone-to-phone around the world with AT&T and other giants...
...Hayle says her life experience will help her connect with inner-city youth and demonstrate that it's possible to make it out of poverty. But whether this will help in a district that hasn't voted for a Republican since Lincoln--and where the incumbent wields such clout, according to the Washington Times, that businesses are afraid to support Hayle--will depend on getting her fellow Caribbeans and pro-life Catholics to the polls...
...spirited, combative lawmaker who came to Washington in the post-Watergate congressional housecleaning, Miller has made a career championing the causes of children and the environment. Though Republican power has diminished his clout--he lost the chairmanship of the powerful Natural Resources Committee--his enthusiasm for Democratic causes has not waned...
...would not necessarily guarantee a new agreement that would provide more generous pay and benefits to members of Local 254. The market pressure of competition with outside contractors that generated the harsh conditions of this contract will still be in effect. The union will probably not gain much more clout in negotiating with Harvard...
Jerry Bruno knows all about his Congressman. He can't help it. The retired college professor who lives in Portland, Maine, is not a political junkie or even someone whose money and clout might be worth the attention. But all through the day, he is barraged with information about Republican James Longley. A stranger calls on the phone to praise Longley as a "friend of small business." A radio spot touts the lawmaker's "antigovernment" stands. A TV ad complains that Longley is the victim of "cheap shots" by "Big Labor bosses." Then there's the whole series of anti...