Frank can tell if someone is thinking in the key of C at the wrong time and will clout them for it.
The comprehensive bill would finally provide much-needed resources and clout for the safety commission, enabling it to get products off the shelves more quickly and hand out greater fines and penalties for violating product safety laws.
In short, few like or trust China's authoritarian government and some fear it will use its commercial clout for geopolitical purposes.
Premiums have been falling steeply as it is; more clout for brokers can only make things worse.
It would be a blow to Calpers, which has used its institutional clout for years to promote good corporate governance and truth in accounting.
So hold the holy water and stifle the Mephistophelian pipe-organ toccata: Nestlé is using its corporate clout for good, not…evil.
It also raised concern across Asia about China's willingness to use its growing economic clout for political gains.
It also means more international clout for India's government a consideration that may weigh just as heavily with India's nationalist leaders.
Lovefilm, which runs a DVD delivery service under its own name as well as for partners including Odeon cinemas and the Guardian, hopes the Amazon tie-up will give it more clout as it fights for consumers' time.
That extra bit of clout made it easier for thousands of party loyalists to crowd voting stations; intimidate other voters; vote freely and often, and in as many polling stations as they wished; and to also tamper with the ballots.
