Because teaching holds relatively low social clout, graduates flow toward banking, medicine, law, consulting, and tech -- highly selective industries that call for only the best.
It would be a significant step toward using Europe's collective clout with debt markets to rescue countries with much weaker standing.
That was true of the classical gold standard, when working people lacked the political clout to resist a monetary policy overwhelmingly geared toward stabilising the fixed-rate system.
The first is tobacco clout: federal research spending reflects the attitudes of lawmakers toward tobacco companies, which contribute heavily to campaign coffers.
Although it could be argued that these documents lacked legal clout, they represented a declaration of intent and a step toward establishing a global sustainability agenda.
The Obama administration, while still trying to extract itself from Afghanistan, is now cultivating alliances with Asian nations and redirecting its strategic and military focus toward Asia to manage China's new military clout.
The Obama administration, while still trying to extract itself from Afghanistan, "is now cultivating alliances with Asian nations and redirecting its strategic and military focus toward Asia to manage China's new military clout," they write.
Sweeney's strategy was to increase labour's visibility and political clout, and to that end the AFL-CIO contributed $35 million toward many 1996 political campaigns, including the reelection campaign of Pres.
The ethical bankruptcy of the CEOs, executives, and traders in these mega-banks, when combined with the lack of any real oversight, the perverse incentive structure, and political clout, all means we've taken a Great Leap Backward toward Mercantilism.
FRANKFURT — The European Central Bank on Thursday took its most ambitious step yet toward easing the euro zone crisis, throwing its unlimited financial clout behind an effort to protect Spain and Italy from financial collapse.
