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...officials acknowledged in interviews this week that discrepancies in individual House policies allow some masters to wield considerable discretionary power in the transfer selection process...
Political Action Committees (PACs) currently have a stranglehold on Congress. A determining factor in the 1980 Presidential election, PACs wield awesome power, capable not only of granting sizeable campaign contributions to House and Senate members but also of spending for or against a candidate independent of his official campaign committee...
...local restaurant within 500 feet of the church, obtain a liquor license. The church did not explain why it was only challenging Grendel's, when 26 other restaurants within the legal radius also served alcohol. It also did not explain why Cambridge's non-Armenian Catholics should wield such power over Cambridge's non-Armenian Catholics...
Andropov will also need to consolidate his hold on the Central Committee Secretariat, the Moscow bureaucracy that manages the day-to-day affairs of the party. Officials who hold jobs in both the Secretariat and the Politburo, like Agriculture Specialist Mikhail Gorbachev, 51, wield the most clout. Andropov and his colleagues are answerable in theory to the Central Committee, a body made up of 308 voting and 147 nonvoting members who represent a cross section of the nation. In practice, the Politburo and the Central Committee Secretariat exercise limitless power in running the Soviet Union...
...chance for the starring role because he is in poor health or political disgrace. But the new man could have cause for concern about the ambitions of tough Ukrainian Party Boss Vladimir Shcherbitsky, 64. Half a dozen others figured in the handicapping for the succession to Brezhnev and still wield great power. Five of them are voting members of the Politburo...