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Though Reagan dominated domestic affairs, the same cannot be said of his handling of foreign policy issues. His strident anti-Soviet rhetoric increased cold war jitters. Using all his political wile the clout, the President won grudging Senate assent for the sale of AWACS radar planes to Saudi Arabia. The victory staved off what would have been a humiliating public defeat but did little to advance any coherent U.S. strategy for bringing peace to the Middle East...
Union ranks are thinning, and organized workers are losing their clout...
...beneficial for both Santa Fe and Kuwait. Though it has grown at a compound annual rate of nearly 23% since 1950, Santa Fe in recent years has been forced to invest larger and larger amounts of capital to keep expanding. Kuwaiti ownership would give the firm the financial clout to broaden its presence in such lucrative markets as the British North Sea, where it holds a 16% interest in the Thistle Field...
...White House aides say that Allen, who reports to the President mainly through Counsellor Edwin Meese, is now being unfairly cast as a scapegoat. Most insiders, however, feel that he has managed to make a difficult situation worse by his inept efforts on the Hill. "He had neither the clout nor the brains to pull it off," said one Senate aide...
...tampering be it by whites in the Southern United States or New York City, or by minorities in something so insignificant as student government. When district lines were redrawn in the Mississippi Delta to end generations of racial gerrymandering, the goal was more than simply giving Blacks greater political clout; it was an issue of fundamental fairness. And so is this...