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...food hurt poor African countries, about which the French President professes to care so deeply - Chirac told the British Prime Minister he was being rude and postponed next month's Anglo-French summit until early 2003. Chirac has come out firing to bolster the political, economic and cultural clout of Paris, to check the shift of the E.U.'s center of gravity to Berlin and to deflect attention from Washington. On some fronts he's fighting a losing battle. He took time off last month to lend his backing to a conference of French-speaking nations in Lebanon...
...relationships, Harvard can hit Coke where few activists can: in the pocketbook. Furthermore, Deval Patrick of the Board of Overseers is also an executive vice president and general counsel of Coca-Cola. As students we must use our voice within the university to pressure it to use its clout in the Coke corporation to enact change...
...victory. Thune talks of the influence he would have with the White House; Johnson, of the importance of keeping Daschle in control of the Senate as well as holding on to his own Appropriations Committee post. South Dakotans are keenly aware of what it means to have clout in Washington. The state receives more money than it remits in taxes, and with an aging population and large numbers of impoverished Native Americans and drought-stricken farmers, it needs those funds. Thune's campaign took a body blow when Bush, who has made three trips to South Dakota as President, neglected...
...Though still extremely popular with the public?his approval rating hit 64% in early October?Koizumi's failure to follow through on his platform has left the silver-maned politician with a reputation for being all charisma, no clout. "He's always been a reformer at heart, but he wasted a lot of political capital by taking on secondary issues," says Steve Vogel, a professor of political science at the University of California, Berkeley. That's why Koizumi's appointment of Takenaka last month to head the financial services agency surprised many, who took it as a demonstration of renewed...
...staffer’s expertise, Ehrenreich said he would add his own clout and connections as a faculty member...