Word: clouts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Yeltsin's reform policies and reflects the Kremlin's general nervousness in the run-up to the December session of the Congress of People's Deputies, where the dominant communists plan to seek the government's resignation and a curb on free-market reforms. In his other show of clout, Yeltsin chose to disband a 5,000-strong police force controlled by one of his major rivals, legislative speaker Ruslan Khasbulatov. Ironically, the so-called Cardinal's Guard was originally formed to protect the Russian legislative building after last year's failed coup. Yeltsin began calling the force an "illegal...
...their country should be. The pact recognized Quebec as a "distinct society" and guaranteed it 25% of the House of Commons. But the province's Francophones insisted on greater control over tax money as well. A new, popularly elected Senate with six seats per province would have increased the clout of the English-speaking Western provinces. But they too wanted more -- and bridled at any special treatment at all for Quebec...
...defeat. But to make the province an independent country, they would have to win provincial elections in 1994 and then a provincial referendum. Polls show only about a third of the Quebec vote to be hard-core separatist. Quebec's demands for a looser federation, Western insistence on greater clout, aboriginal longing for self-government -- all are likely to be fought out piecemeal in Ottawa, with uncertain results. The only point everybody can agree on is that the idea of trying to solve all these problems by writing a new constitution is dead for years to come...
...race and come into the convention with the masses of delegates he commanded in 1984 and 1988, he might easily have caused Clinton headaches as splitting as those he gave Walter Mondale and Michael Dukakis. But with no delegates at all this year, Jackson could rely only on his clout as a senior black leader, and it was not enough to mount any challenge to Clinton or even wangle a large role at the convention or in the campaign...
...French-speaking province of Quebec would secede and the country would fall apart. Last week Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and 10 provincial premiers finalized an agreement aimed at keeping the 125-year-old confederation intact. They agreed to constitutional reforms that would provide greater autonomy for Quebec, more political clout for the country's less populous regions and self-government for aboriginal Canadians...