The G.O.P. wants to further shred the safety net, wants to give corporations even greater clout over already debased workers, and wants to fatten the coffers of the already obscenely rich.
Royal Dutch/Shell is said to be carrying out feasibility studies for the best way of getting the gas to Europe.American clout has already prevented Iran from being used for the transport of Azerbaijan's oil to western markets.
SPORTSMONDAY A Second-Term Challenge President Bush's second-term clout is already being tested by Republican doubts about his domestic agenda, unease about Iraq and the threat of overreaching, officials in both parties say.
At the very least, leverage them take a hint from the brilliant nuclear extortion tactics of North Korea or the clout Iran already wields merely for pursuing the bomb and gloating over prospects of using it.
We like that idea, too, but the lawmakers could create such an office without a constitutional change that would give special interests even more clout than they already have.
It certainly matters a great deal to the government that voters should believe its reform plans are part of an optimistic, creative reshaping of the state, rather than a right-wing plot to slash the state back.That, I would argue, gives the National Trust quite a lot of clout, because it already embodies something rather the Big Society in action.
Groupon claims that Scheduler now represents one of the most "intuitive and complete free products of its kind," and while that's not exactly true, as there are plenty of intuitive, cheap online scheduling solutions out there, combined with the Groupon brand clout, and its already existing suite of marketing tools, this is a good deal for small businesses.
But determination, not to mention the clout of Mr. Spacey, already an Oscar winner, was not enough.
Brain scans already have clout in the courtroom; during death-penalty hearings, judges often allow images suggesting neurological impairment to be introduced as mitigating evidence.
Most important of all, however, is what Iovine and Dre could do for Apple's already considerable clout in the music industry.
