Word: clouts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Huffington has evolved from political wife to policy entrepreneur, a one-woman think tank with more clout than her husband Michael--an oil-company heir and former California Congressman--ever dreamed of. In one year, she has won her own weekly cable-TV talk show, co-hosted CNN's Crossfire, testified twice before Congress and become a "senior fellow" at the Progress and Freedom Foundation, a think tank associated with Newt Gingrich, where she heads up her own Center for Effective Compassion, which promotes private giving to replace the welfare state. With all that, she has become the goddess...
...economics and political science at Cairo University, observes, "When the big powers are in agreement, the U.N. performs. When they aren't, the U.N. is paralyzed." Security Council members, who ensure that no Secretary-General will pose a challenge to their individual authority, could invest the office with Bismarckian clout at any time. Short of that, they could put a quietus to the outmoded system of rotating the chief's job among "nonaligned" parts of the world...
...Industrial Organizations came together 40 years ago, its presidency has been a fiefdom that had never been challenged. Now, for the first time, an election contest is raging for the job. The outcome, to be decided this Thursday, could help determine whether labor can approach its once formidable clout...
...Milosevic, would allow Serb leaders to hold a referendum on the new nation after a year. TIME's Bruce Van Voorst says that Milosevic is likely to reject both demands, and that the vote may simply be part of the Serb negotiating strategy: "It's not clear how much clout Milosevic has with the Bosnian Serbs. But it could be that Milosevic asked for this vote, so he could go to the negotiating session and say his hands are tied. Look for a lot of similar grandstanding in the next few days leading up to this meeting." Expect a number...
Recognizing their susceptibility to bearing the brunt of the costs hospitals, while admitting they do not have the clout of the seniors' groups, have still been lobbying extensively in Washington...