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...most revered holy men, Montazeri has ties to Khomeini that go back more than 40 years, to the time when Montazeri was a student of the revolutionary cleric in the holy city of Qum. A year ago, Montazeri was designated Khomeini's successor as spiritual leader of Iran. His clout is already substantial. He appoints members of the Supreme Judicial Council, Iran's highest court, and is the "supreme guide" for the country's universities and seminaries. Other leaders, though, have recently been intriguing to curb his growing influence...
Reagan's appeal and political clout have fundamentally changed political debate; few victorious candidates of either party campaigned for increased domestic spending or the neoisolationist foreign policy approach favored by many Democrats in the 1970s. ABC News exit polls showed that Reagan's popularity remains astonishingly high; his positive approval rating is 62% to 38%. White House Political Director Mitchell Daniels noted that successful Democratic candidates "very wisely slipped every punch and ducked every engagement with the President." Even in Louisiana, where Reagan's policies were blamed for the statewide economic crisis wrought by the collapse of oil prices, Democratic...
...other party fund raisers were invited to participate. Impac's members are veteran Democratic centurions, centrist in outlook and combative in style. By shopping for a contender as a group rather than waiting to be wooed two or three at a time, Landow & Co. hope to win more clout in shaping the candidate's campaign. But what they want most of all is a winner...
...play starts one year after Julius Caesar's death, when his adopted son Octavian returns to Italy. Octavian wants to reclaim his inheritance, which Mark Antony has stolen, and he is determined to fight for his fortune. Octavian was confident of his military power, but he needed some political clout, so he persuades Cicero to come out of retirement, go back to the Senate, and challenge Mark Antony's supremacy...
...every turn, avoided risking his own image, even for liberal causes in his state. He has not put his weight behind defeating New York's incumbent Republican senator, Alfonse D'Amato. Despite the commitment to compassionate liberalism that he exudes in every apearance, Cuomo has not used his political clout to put fellow liberals in office. Rather, he exhorted and endorsed two unknowns for state-wide Democratic nomination so as to keep himself--and only himself--in New York's liberal spotlight...