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...need from our health plans, we're going to have to speak up, not just to the nurses and doctors but to our employers as well. After all, they're the ones that picked our plans and pay the premiums. And they're the ones with the financial clout to change the rules of the game...
...looks as if he may succeed. As of last week, polls preceding the June 2 vote showed about 60% of citizens favoring Proposition 227, the "English for Children" initiative, despite a last-minute media blitz by opponents. "Politicians are ineffective on ethnic issues," Unz says, explaining his surprising clout. "If I didn't do something about bilingual education, no one else would...
Some Cantabrigians say that the clout ofadvocacy groups--traditionally a big part of thecity's political life--has been declining, theresult of rent control's abolition...
...Most of us have known that, eventually,Harvard and Radcliffe will merge," said concernedalumna Joan H. Burns '56. "I just want Radcliffeto be the bride with the largest dowry so she willbring some clout to the marriage...
...turnabout culminates a quarter-century of legislative and legal maneuvering. The 1963 Supreme Court decision and its broad-brush enforcement by school administrators infuriated conservative Christians, who gradually developed enough clout to force Congress to make a change. The resulting Equal Access Act of 1984 required any federally funded secondary school to permit religious meetings if the schools allowed other clubs not related to curriculum, such as public-service Key Clubs. The crucial rule was that the prayer clubs had to be voluntary, student-run and not convened during class time...