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...Teamsters membership in Alaska constitutes 10 per cent of the registered voting population in the state. Controlling the material supply line to the construction sites, and a large portion of the flow of consumer goods to Alaskan residents, the Teamsters occupy a bottleneck that affords them substantial political clout. "What they say, goes," Faulkner added...
...suburban Australian weekly papers that are practically given away. But there is one thing that can be said of the Murdoch papers--almost uniformly, they make money, and lots of it. One of the few exceptions is the Sydney-based Australian, which as Australia's leading newspaper, threw considerable clout into the election of Labor Prime Minister Gough Whitlam. A few years later The Australian threw even more clout--and a good deal of Murdoch's money--into unseating the first Labor premier in 20 years. In London, Murdoch owns not only the immensely profitable News of the World...
Daley's Chicago worked for the party faithful, for the guy who could call his "clout" to get his alley fixed or his brother a job with the Park District. But it didn't work so well for the guy who voted against the Machine and couldn't get his alley fixed, or the voter who didn't want to support feather-bedding in city government, or the store owner who receives a surprise visit from the building inspector after an anti-administration poster appeared in his window, or the tavern owners forced to pay extortion fees to corrupt policemen...
...Losing Clout. Blacks exploded at the choice. "We will no longer be taken for granted," stormed Democratic Congressman Ralph Metcalfe. Polish Americans also objected, thus raising the specter of a black-Polish alliance against the ruling Irish-who stand to lose considerable clout now that their most powerful patron is gone. The fact is that even though Daley always mounted impressive parades and dyed the usually opaque Chicago River a bright green for St. Patrick's Day, the Irish account for only 5% of Chicago's 3.1 million people. Fully 39% of Chicagoans are black, 12% Hispanic...
...were exhausted before the present version was put together under-or perhaps around-Director Frank Pierson (The Looking Glass War). Yet, what the serious quarterlies call "the authorship" of A Star Is Born is unclear. Responsibility must surely rest with Streisand and Peters, who kept hold of the creative clout...