Word: clouts
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...just one voice in a thousand outside the government telling them what to do, and I'm without clout, at that, so it's hard to get listened to," Fisher says...
Your comment that I have "far more clout" as ranking minority member on the Senate Human Resources Committee than the committee's chairman, Senator Harrison A. Williams Jr. of New Jersey, is wrong and misleading...
...would deepen the budget deficit, kick up inflation and irrecoverably lead to recession. He opposes even the $25 billion cut and advocates starting at a lower figure, say $15 billion. But Ullman is not likely to prevail over O'Neill. Earnest, hard-working Ullman lacks the clout wielded by his predecessor, Wilbur Mills, in part because of recent reforms of House rules, which weakened all committee chairmen while strengthening the Speaker...
...personal staff of 50. In addition, he has increased his own considerable influence by relying on such able committee aides as Don Zimmerman, minority counsel to the Senate Human Resources Committee. Javits, the ranking minority member on the committee, has used Zimmerman to develop far more clout, especially on labor matters, than the committee chairman, Democratic Senator Harrison Williams of New Jersey...
...Saudi Arabia, which pumps some one-third of all OPEC oil, alone carries the clout to turn production on or off in sufficient quantities to dictate prices. The lesson of last year's split in OPEC ranks, when eleven countries pushed prices higher than Saudi Arabia wanted and then had to pull back after the Saudis increased production and sales, has been learned. During elaborate dances in the shadows over the past seven weeks, several key oil producers, particularly Iran, which had previously been a hawk for higher prices, agreed to follow Yamani...