Word: clouts
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...Wilson risking his political reputation -- and more than $16 million / in expected campaign costs -- just two years after winning re-election to the Senate? The answer lies in California's increasing national political clout. In the 1992 presidential race, the state will account for 10% of the nation's electoral votes. The next Governor will also strongly influence a reapportionment process that could produce 14 contestable congressional seats in the 1992 election -- a boon for the Republican minority in the House. Moreover, the Governor's mansion in Sacramento served as a powerful presidential launching pad for Ronald Reagan, who once...
Gorbachev flatly denied the story next day, and no other news organization got even a shred of confirmation that resignation was imminent. But the furor demonstrated CNN's growing impact as the world's most widely circulated TV news network. It also raised questions about whether, given that global clout, CNN exercised due journalistic caution when dealing with a potential bombshell...
Early last week his advisers told Bush that his veto could not be sustained in Congress. Adamant, Bush and his combative chief of staff, John Sununu, insisted the White House must prevail if Bush were to convert his passive public approval to tangible political clout. In an interview with TIME on the eve of the China vote, Bush urged that Congress not "just seek confrontation in an election year." He warned, "I won't be any pushover...
Nowhere is its enduring clout more evident than in Congress, where the group is preparing for another round in its fight against the Brady bill. (The proposal takes its unofficial name from James Brady and his wife Sarah, who became a gun-control activist after her husband was shot.) When the measure first went before the House in 1988, it lost by a vote of 228 to 182. This year few expect it to pass the House or even to emerge from committee in the Senate. Prospects are not much better for Senate passage of a bill to ban assault...
...year after the schoolyard massacre in Stockton, Calif., gave gun control a new impetus, the N.R.A. looks for a way to maintain its clout. -- TIME poll describes a nation where many share a devotion to guns -- and a willingness to accept regulations. -- For and Against: leaders of the N.R.A. and Handgun Control speak about firearms. -- Washington Mayor Marion Barry may finally have run out of luck. -- The McMartin sex case abused children, defendants, judge and jurors for six exhausting years...