Word: clouts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...parlay the role of this adorable meddler into a multimillion-dollar picture deal, as Clueless's Alicia Silverstone did. Still, Emma could conceivably vault Paltrow from her current status as bright ingenue to the top of the list of serious young actresses who combine Oscar eclat and box-office clout--a little Streep, a little Sandra Bullock. Anyway, Emma is a showcase part, handsomely played...
...FlorCruz says the United States has been tacitly encouraging China's new role, and notes that Jiang's announcement closely follows a visit to China by U.S. National Security Adviser Anthony Lake. North Korea still has to be persuaded to come to the table, but China -- uniquely -- has considerable clout with the leadership in Pyongyang. --Scot Woods
...estimated at $8 billion, making it the largest publicly funded project in the United States today. In 1987, then-President Ronald W. Reagan cited the project as an example of pork-barrel spending and vetoed federal funding for it--but the veto was overridden thanks to the enormous clout of the Commonwealth's Democratic heavy-weights on Capitol Hill, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54-'56 and the late Speaker of the House Thomas M. "Tip" O'Neill...
...title came with a basement office and little clout. Livingstone, in his mid-30s, has no law-enforcement background, and the Secret Service handles all the real security work, but it lets him stroll the corridors of power, exuding an air of mystery and importance. "Basically, my job is to be invisible," Livingstone told a reporter two years ago. "If I'm around, something's wrong...
...power is clout, like the thud of an iron heel. Influence is sway, like being rocked in a hammock. But like the grass in Carl Sandburg's poem, influence has a way of spreading until it overwhelms every bump in its path. Leonid Brezhnev had power. Andrei Sakharov had influence. Power: the FCC. Influence: Howard Stern. What this means is that influence generally gets the last laugh. Alexander Hamilton never attained the presidency. His philosophical antagonist Thomas Jefferson did. But the world has gone Hamilton's way. By most measures, the country we live in today more closely resembles...