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And it would scarce be worth while to give a clout to the sickly lad that took Elleen down.
But by and by, as said, this evening after sundown, the wind sitting in the west, biggish swollen clouds to be seen as the night increased and the weatherwise poring up at them and some sheet lightnings at first and after, past ten of the clock, one great stroke with a long thunder and in a brace of shakes all scamper pellmell within door for the smoking shower, the men making shelter for their straws with a clout or kerchief, womenfolk skipping off with kirtles catched up soon as the pour came.
But the piece contained the essential anti-Johnson charge--that "he wields his considerable clout mainly to protect and defend Fannie Mae's congressionally mandated business advantages.
Overall, it's a nicely argued and sourced piece, but it makes me wonder: Is it worse to be a magazine writer if magazines have lost clout or a newspaper reporter who writes about magazines if magazines have lost clout?
Can you imagine 'the Boca Raton intellectuals' exercising cultural clout in the national media, with profiles about them to follow in the Times ?
And there's an interesting paradox here with Africana : Gates is probably the only black intellectual in America with the charisma and clout to get it published.
McAuliffe is seen as a new breed of entrepreneurial fund-raisers who leverage their services not to obtain cushy ambassadorial posts or lobbyist clout but to help fuel telecommunications, banking, and real-estate business deals.
Paycheck protection became a big conservative rallying cry after the 1996 election, because labor's unexpectedly strong clout scared Republicans to death.
Weak governors also face limits of one or two terms, making them automatic lame ducks: They tend to govern less independently and exercise less clout with legislatures than strong governors, who, because they can repeatedly succeed themselves, amass more and more political power.
But a governor's clout doesn't rest only in institutional trappings.
His efforts have not boosted test scores as much as had been promised, but modest improvements and Crew's political clout make him the beleaguered system's most impressive chief in decades.
The United States must now use its clout to arbitrate a solution once and for all.
) Other features: a breakdown of Clinton's options ( Time likes the idea of a public apology but thinks Clinton's team would never go for it), a recapping and analysis of Starr's evidence, as Time understands it, a prediction that the House will do nothing before elections, and a piece claiming the scandal has ruined any chance for Clinton to burnish his legacy before he leaves office--he simply doesn't have the political clout anymore.
Pundits agreed that the GOP won the battle and lost the war: Gingrich's ethics case will drag on through congressional hearings, the GOP will then force the House Ethics Committee to close the case, enabling Democrats to cry "cover-up" for months afterward, members will have to vote again on his punishment, he'll be distracted, tarnished, and weakened, having lost prestige and twisted arms just to get re-elected, he'll have no clout left to keep his troops in line, the Republican policy agenda will languish, Gingrich will be forced to make concessions to Clinton in order to pass legislation and repair his own image, and, above all, Democrats will sing from Gingrich's rap sheet throughout the coming hearings on Clinton's ethical troubles.
2) Wait a minute--we get to join forces with the German unions, which have even more clout and better benefits.
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