Word: clouts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Wise was well connected, and so were the real estate honchos who were part of the Silverado juggernaut: Walters, Good and Mizel. Walters had his own bank and a high profile as an extravagant political contributor. Mizel and his M.D.C. Holdings dominated the Denver housing market. He reinforced his clout with hefty political contributions to local, state and national politicians. In 1986 he was host at a luncheon attended by President Reagan and raised $1 million for the Republican Party...
...many as 50,000 more soldiers to help defend the Saudis. The new grouping would not be entirely reassuring to the U.S. unless Syria's leader, Hafez Assad, completely abandons support of Palestinian terrorist groups. But the U.S. would benefit if Egypt developed political influence to match the cultural clout it already wields as a supplier of films, books, newspapers and teachers to much of the Arab world...
...describes the Genovese family as the "most stable," the "best counseled" and the most diversified business-crime group in the country. Leading the family's extortion list is the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, the largest U.S. labor union (1.7 million members). Mostly through unions, the family also has major clout in such trades as construction, food distribution, textiles and garbage hauling. The Genovese clan dominates the ports of New York, New Jersey and Miami, as well as America's biggest fish market...
...Association met in Chicago last Saturday to evaluate David Souter's qualifications as a potential Justice of the Supreme Court. Imposingly named the Standing Committee on Federal Judiciary, the panel has no official standing, but its three possible assessments of nominees -- well qualified, qualified or not qualified -- carry clout in the Senate during confirmation hearings and votes. Intriguingly, one of the new A.B.A. committee members who will help rate Judge Souter is William J. Brennan III, a partner in a Princeton, N.J., law firm and the son of the retiring Justice whom Souter hopes to replace...
...little value in taming Kuwait and the U.A.E., which have rich petroleum reserves and tend to favor lower prices as a way of discouraging Western countries from pursuing alternative energy sources. But Iraq desperately needs higher prices, and Saddam reckoned he had something more powerful than the Saudis' economic clout with which to frighten the renegades: the mightiest army in the Arab world...