Word: swaying
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Personal charm and amiability are hardly trivial considerations for a Justice who wants to influence the court. The Chief Justice is merely first among equals on a court that Justice Powell once described as "nine one-man law firms." To sway his sometimes fiercely independent colleagues, a chief must be both intellectually forceful and collegial...
...Soviet Union. The war the United States is about to fund will destablize that region, thereby increasing the threat to our borders. But even more distressing is the fact that the decision to send money to the contras will also fuel the rhetorical fire of leftists trying to sway the peoples of other Central American nations...
...well-paid position with the head gnomes of Wall Street, Salomon Brothers. In the late '60s, Stockman, like many WASPs of his time, was in hiding from the Vietnam war. A self-professed leftie, Stockman chose the Harvard Divinity School as his hideout, but he soon fell under the sway of the smell of power...
...think the left thinks of me as being one of them. I consult with a whole spectrum of people. Nobody really has a complete hold on me. I listen to a great many people, and once I have made up my mind, there is really no way anyone can sway...
Until this year, the board was dominated by governors who supported Volcker's strategy of maintaining relatively tight credit to keep inflation at bay. The Volckerites held sway over two members appointed by President Reagan --Martin and Martha Seger--who often wanted to push the economy faster. But in January Reagan named two more members: Wayne Angell, a Kansas banker and economics professor, and Manuel Johnson, a former Assistant Treasury Secretary. That put the Reagan appointees, whom economists dubbed the "Gang of Four," in the majority...