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Increasingly, however, students' direct interests are at stake. The Reagan Administrators has made a virtual policy out of hitting on groups with limited clout, with the announcement this week of wholesale cuts in educational aid for 1985, and the President's reiteration of the support of tying aid to draft registration, the attack on student interests has intensified. In 1980 financial aid to students was saved from the chopping block by the opposition of prominent Democratic lenders--but students today cannot afford to rely solely on a fortuitous coalition of congressional representatives. Today, like never before, students must lobby-with...
...long run, young people must be made to understand, as minorities and women are realizing today, the extent of their power. As 20 percent of the voting public, they form a powerful interest group with the clout to make great changes in policy. With a heightened sense of solidarity and political activism the might oven help away close elections. President Reagan's margin in some states in 1980 was ordinated involvement of the young would have had a powerful impact...
...have great luck or clout, you may get a couple of the few non-press and non-big-shot seats at a hockey game or a figure-skating competition, but there is just no way to watch more than a fragment of a ski race in person. Ski jumping is splendid for eyeball-viewing?all those figures flying through the air?but the races are hopeless. Flat or steep, it does not matter; you pick a good turn and watch the bodies come over the hill or out of the trees, zip, zip. Did you see Bill Koch or Phil...
Since becoming Federal Reserve Board chairman in 1979, Paul Volcker has built a daunting political power base. When his term was running out last summer, Volcker's clout in Congress and the financial community helped him survive a campaign by Treasury Secretary Donald Regan to prevent his reappointment. Now the Federal Reserve chairman has again shown his strength. In a battle among top Government officials, Volcker has blocked a plan that would have diminished the Federal Reserve's powers over U.S. banks as part of an effort to centralize the regulation of financial institutions in a new federal...
...military's clout reflects in part the ancient obsession with security of oft-invaded Russia and in part a cold judgment by the Politburo that armed might commands both the fear and respect that give the modern Soviet Union its best chance of extending its ideological and political influence. The practical effect is that the marshals and admirals get whatever weapons they want, never mind the cost...