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Lashman did not have any complaints against Tsongas. "It is not a question of criticism, but a question of priorities. If you have a man already, why trade him in for a guy with no clout," he said yesterday...
...volunteer Complaint-Mobile workers are nonlawyers. But, as Volunteer Ernie Wallerstein points out, just being able to "mention the D.A.'s office gives you clout." Explains former Assistant District Attorney Ray Bonner, 36, who originally conceived the Complaint-Mobile project: "Many people simply can't afford lawyers, and they don't need them. They simply have to demand their rights. Most businesses know that people do not complain and even if they do, they'll go away if they lose Round 1. We're just helping them get what they should be able...
Reggie Jackson drove in the game's winning run in the eighth with a Reggie Jackson-type home run to straightaway center field. The abortive comeback effort by the Sox in the last two frames may dull the memory of Jackson's clout, but it cannot deny the importance. Reggie Jackson was once again the hero on the type of battlefield where he can be nothing else, when the battle is all or most of the marbles...
...commanding editor who could use a telephone booth to get tickets to any sold-out Broadway show." Father Paul was city editor of Hearst's New York Journal-American, the U.S.'s biggest evening paper through the '40s and '50s. He had muscular clout as well; his arms were those of "a well-manicured ape." It was intoxicating to hear friends inquire: "Ralphie, whaddaya think would happen if your father ever hit anybody with all his might...