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...strategies. Norio Ohga, the part-time symphony orchestra conductor who has been Sony's CEO since 1989, believed in a "synergy" between Sony's core business, producing "hardware" such as VCRS and camcorders, and Hollywood's "software" -- movies. Owning a studio, Sony thought, would help give the company the clout to set the industry standard for the next generation of digital video technology. In the early 1980s Sony's Betamax format of analog videotapes lost out to VHS, so Sony was determined not be left behind again. But Sony's strategy turned out to be a mistake when the industry...
...league, a major accreditor of nursing schools, will probably continue to lend its considerable clout to TT; its president-elect for 1995 is none other than Jean Watson...
Facing what many observers said was his closest race ever, U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54-'56 used his clout and his last name to handily defeat political newcomer W. Mitt Romney last night...
...Medellin cartel. Yet few would deny the vast, perhaps controlling influence of surviving drug lords. While the Medellin cowboys attempted reign by Uzi, shooting four presidential candidates in 1989, the Rodriguezes and fellow members of their cartel are known as the gentle dons. They rely on the quiet clout that a profit estimated by DEA at $7 billion a year can buy. The money saturates the Colombian economy: the narcobosses are thought to own 30% of the country's best farmland and a substantial share of the Colombian stock market...
...Every single person on student aid will benefit [from student loan reform,] and you have Senator Kennedy to thank for that," he said. "It's what clout lets...