Word: clouts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...using its market power to keep toy prices higher." Regulators charge that Toys R Us keeps prices up by using its size to pressure toy manufacturers not to sell to rival retailers. Manufacturers say the company will not buy products carried by large warehouse clubs, in effect using the clout of a company that accounts for more than one-fifth of the $19-billion-a-year U.S. toy business to keep suppliers selling only to them. Toys R Us CEO Michael Goldstein disputes the FTC's charges. He says the company must use such tactics to remain competitive with warehouse...
Without it, the straying mind turns subversive. By what magic, it wonders, is Cruise, who co-produced the movie and is presumably not without clout in these matters, sporting the worst haircut ever worn in public by a major movie star? How does a supposedly desperate team of rogue spooks acquire all the exotic, expensive equipment they need to support their complicated activities? I mean, how do you rent a fire truck, vital to the burgling of the aforementioned vault--located at CIA headquarters in Virginia--when you're calling long distance from Prague? Finally, why did director Brian...
...using its market power to keep toy prices higher." Regulators charge that Toys R Us keeps prices up by using its size to pressure toy manufacturers not to sell to rival retailers. Manufacturers say the company will not buy products carried by large warehouse clubs, in effect using the clout of a company that accounts for more than one-fifth of the $19-billion-a-year U.S. toy business to keep suppliers selling only to them. Toys R Us CEO Michael Goldstein disputes the FTC's charges. He says the company must use such tactics to remain competitive with warehouse...
...Christian witness, appears now to flow more from the red-hot political engagement of such Christian Right warriors as broadcast executive Pat Robertson; Christian Coalition head Ralph Reed, his protege; and the less renowned but perhaps more influential James Dobson, head of Focus on the Family. Weakening the Graham clout further is what many experts see as a decline in the popularity of arena evangelism as other mediums usurp its religious and social functions. Competition from television and megachurches, says biographer Martin, raises the question "as to whether people will still come to that kind of thing, absent an opportunity...
...established in 1946 so that one person would oversee these unruly organizations. In the decades since, however, no director has had the inclination or clout to rein in these agencies. Deutch is doing just that. Instead of becoming bogged down in CIA business, as past chiefs have, Deutch has left the day-to-day operation of the agency to his executive director, Nora Slatkin, so he can spend most of his time overseeing the rest of the community...