Word: clouts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...President-elect got an unwelcome indication that his political clout is still less than overpowering. He campaigned hard for Georgia Senator Wyche Fowler, even playing the saxophone at a rally on the eve of a runoff election last week. But Fowler lost to Republican Paul Coverdell, ensuring that the Democrats will not increase the 57-to-43 edge they hold in the Senate...
...largest and most profitable carriers in the world, is taxiing toward unlimited access to U.S. markets vital to the Big Three. USAir, with its concentration of hubs in the eastern U.S., the point of origin for much travel to Europe, can give British Airways crushing new clout in the critical transatlantic market. At the same time, the deal will make USAir a formidable domestic competitor once more. USAir chief executive Seth Schofield conceded, "It's their worst nightmare: competition that they did not expect and do not want. An amicable truce is literally impossible. There is no room for compromise...
...actor Ron Leibman, who make Cohn a villain-one- loves-to-hate, like Richard III but slipperier and funnier. In the best passage, Cohn asserts he is not a gay man at all but a heterosexual who sleeps with men. Gays, he explains, know no one and have "zero clout...
Politically powerful Community farmers -- 11 million strong out of a total population of 340 million -- are fighting a remarkably effective rearguard action. Nowhere is their clout more in evidence than in France. With good reason, President Francois Mitterrand fears that giving in to the U.S. will inflame the truculent farm lobby and damage his faltering Socialist Party's prospects in legislative elections next March. Luc Guyau, president of the French federation of farmers' unions, warns that the French President had better stay his course. "We will put ourselves in the front lines," he says...
...allegations against Walsh, a practicing lawyer, include using political clout to block a Rent Control Board inquiry into a colleague's actions and representing clients in matters concerning city agencies...