Word: clouts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...weeks after liberation, PVE vice president Michael Taylor joined scores of other foreign businessmen at the ransacked Kuwait International Hotel. PVE was ready to move immediately, but Kuwait was not. The Saudi intermediary, it seems, lacked sufficient clout. Five months later, a network of agents is finally in place, and a contract should be signed soon. But the delay -- and the need to pay astronomical agency fees -- has pushed the estimated cost of the two-year project to approximately $1.2 billion. "More than $100 million of that will go to the agents," says an aide to the Prime Minister...
Nowhere is the growing clout of Hispanics more evident than in the battles over redrawing local-, state- and congressional-election maps based on the 1990 Census. Armed with small computers, Latino activists are trying to translate their swelling numbers into political power by creating districts in which Hispanic voters are the majority...
...beyond that of Germany, Japan or Italy. The seat explains why Mitterrand insists that any new security arrangements for the Middle East must gain the U.N.'s imprimatur. Moreover, France's nuclear arsenal continues to assure it a place at high table with the superpowers, while its economic clout provides membership in the exclusive Group of Seven. Political punch aside, French humanitarian efforts overseas, such as the war-defying missions of the volunteer doctors known as Medecins sans Frontieres, remain leading lights of compassion...
...snapping up the best parts. American and United are pushing into Latin America. In the transatlantic market, where TWA and Pan Am have steadily lost ground over the years to heavily subsidized European flag carriers, American, United and Delta will present much more formidable competition. One measure of their clout: each airline is larger than all the European carriers combined...
...gorilla of the party has a fiscal mess to solve in New York. But the Governor's fund-raising clout and popularity among Democratic activists make him the only one who can afford to bide his time...