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...want where I want them," Butterfield told TIME Correspondent Jerry Hannifin. "We're very institutionalized, and we need clear and fresh thinking. The cliques are fantastic. So much could be done, but you need a free hand. I thought as an agency head you'd have clout. But you don't, and that was surprising...
...Without additional formal title but with clear authority from Ford, Rockefeller will recruit a brain trust to delve into every aspect of domestic policy; he will arbitrate among conflicting Cabinet proposals and formulate plans for allocation of the nation's natural and financial resources. To give so much clout to a man with presidential ambitions of his own would seem to be an act of singular self-effacement on the part of Ford. But as an aide puts it, "The President has no ego problem...
...American press tends to promote Mavros as second to Caramanlis in political clout. Yet, as a minister in the same interim government, the Centrist leader has found it difficult to criticize the premier and project an independent identity. This factor may bolster the faction to his immediate left...
Though the ECAC and its member schools are not bound by the NCAA decision, and could conceivably go on playing the rest of the season with players the NCAA has ruled ineligible, the national association has a good deal of clout over members that flaunt its authority...
...bureaucrat struggling for power in Washington has to tread a fine line: he must push his ideas vigorously, but not so vigorously as to offend those who have more clout than he. Federal Energy Administrator John C. Sawhill stepped over the line, and last week he paid the price. President Ford held a surprise news conference to announce Saw-hill's resignation, which Ford had requested the week before. It was the first public-though gentlemanly-sacking of a top official since Ford took office...