Word: clouts
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...toast was yet another reminder to Washington that oil wealth has given Mexico a new clout, which López Portillo is quite willing to use when it suits his purpose. In June a Mexican exploratory well in the Bay of Campeche exploded, uncorking millions of barrels of crude, some of which has washed up on beaches in Texas. The U.S. has argued that Mexico should help pay cleanup costs. Last August, Robert C. Krueger, who was designated Special Ambassador for Mexican Affairs to assist Ambassador Patrick Lucey in overseeing the broad range of issues that have arisen between...
Actress Jane Fonda Saturday told women at the opening ceremonies of the Women for Economic Change conference that women workers to use their political clout to reshape the economy through a massive labor movement...
...soon as someone finds him a quill pen. Carter has been after this one since 1976, when he traded a promise to create the new agency for the endorsement of his campaign from the all-powerful National Education Association (NEA), an agency that had never before lent its clout to a political candidate...
Some crime commissions are not very aggressive. Chattanooga's is mainly a public relations liaison, run by the Chamber of Commerce. Philadelphia citizens crime commission Executive Director Ian Lennox calls his organization "a very friendly watchdog" and is worried that it lacks clout. But he states that "any community is poorer without...
...already has black Africa's largest population (about 80 million) and most bounteous economy (1978 gross national product: $33 billion), as well as the clout that comes with being a rapidly emerging leader of the Third World. To those assets, oil-rich Nigeria may soon add another that is very rare in its part of the world: a democratic government...