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Operation Rescue and other anti-abortion supporters, on the other hand, hold little political clout in this state and therefore draw little sympathy from lawmakers. Anti-abortion protesters should not receive greater penalties just because they are politically incorrect, unpopular in the state and politically vulnerable...
...action will not solve the paper-trash glut, which makes up 40% of the nation's solid waste. But Uncle Sam buys nearly 300,000 tons of paper a year (2% of U.S. sales) and may have the clout to change the industry's economics. Up to now, demand for recycled paper has not persuaded paper companies to make the huge investments in plant and equipment needed for recycling. So limited supply has kept prices high, which in turn has hurt demand. Clinton hopes government purchases will stimulate a much bigger supply, eventually cutting prices and making born-again stationery...
...unhappy and irresponsible," that is his right; but if he is going to get up on the stand and introduce himself as a Harvard professor before he makes such characterizations, he had best be prepared to display the kind of scholarship that gives this University's name its clout...
Success in Hollywood was never the end all forMr. T. It was the means to much greater ends. Withthe cultural clout and the money from his acting,Mr. T fashioned himself as a man to regenerateAmerica, to, as he says, "feed the hungry andclothe the naked and visit the sick and try tocomfort the lonely." In interviews he gave in 1983and 1984, he seems to subordinate his acting tohis public service work; he even told BarbaraWalters that he would abandon acting to take upthe ministry within the decade...
Powell's background as an advisor to President Reagan and Chairman under Presidents Bush and Clinton seems to give him all the foreign policy clout he needs. As a recent Wall Street Journal piece put it, "there's no risk of anyone critiquing you as a softie." This is the leader who presided over the American military during the fall of the Soviet Union and the victory of the Gulf...