Word: clouts
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...much clout are you having on appointments...
...having a lot of clout...
...last chance for revision will be in the House-Senate conference committee, where differences between the two bills will be reconciled. If small business fails to get a boost, it will mainly be testament to the lobbying clout of Big Business, which managed to escape its share of the burden by holding down corporate taxes and ducking the higher energy levies that Clinton had proposed. "We were done in on Capitol Hill," Bennie Thayer, chairman of the National Association for the Self-Employed, told a reporter. "Big Business once again...
...start," says Tim Gibson, spokesman for the Iowa Medical Society. Florida has the most ambitious plan: a law passed last year sets Dec. 31, 1994, as the date for assuring every % resident access to medical insurance by setting up 11 health-care alliances with the clout to negotiate with insurance companies...
...cartoon like Family Dog is probably doomed without the sort of animation care that TV budgets don't permit. Second, big- name filmmakers venturing into TV need to do more than simply lend their big names. Burton and Spielberg, it seems, did little for Family Dog except use their clout to get it on the air. One expected more...