Word: clouts
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...Arabs, the U.S. has been able to maintain its traditional ties to Israel, a feat that it has been struggling to achieve for years. What is more, American initiatives have cost the Soviet Union, the Arabs' military, political and economic backer since the mid-'50s, prestige and clout in the Middle East, although the Soviets continue to have a major role in the region (see box page...
...building contractors and storekeepers have clients in the ghetto. Says Robert Perkins, a partner in a New Orleans architectural firm that designs its largest projects for the poor: "I can't forget who I am dealing with since I have to go back to them. They are our clout...
...last month that Rosovsky will make his first major appointment--a new associate dean of the Faculty for Harvard and Radcliffe--signals an important step towards breaking down the centralization of the dean's office that grew under Dunlop. The new deanship is touted as having the clout to enforce decisions that formerly almost always went right to the dean himself...
...fully articulated in order to influence the work of the second "Redbook committee." Without student efforts even these piecemeal advances might have faltered. But next year's student body must begin to explore the general values and principles which underlie their specific complaints. Failing this they will have little clout in hammering out the next 20 years' educational consensus...
...last found a national role; as Giscard's Minister of Reform, a new post, he will have a chance to try out his long-advocated proposals for giving more power and authority to local and regional government. Jean Lecanuet, 54, another centrist leader with somewhat more real political clout than J.J. S.-S., was given the sensitive Justice Ministry. Giscard is likely to lean most heavily on three ministers with whom he has strong personal ties...