Stars can attract other stars and a well-known director to a film, and, crucially, they can get more ambitious or expensive movies made, because they have clout abroad: the international market is now where studios turn, as DVD sales falter, to backstop their investment.
These bands have recognised that they have clout, and their protests about fees make news.
I would suspect at this point that the Pentagon has more policy-making clout than we do".
Crossovers from anywhere else were equally scarce, with no sign of an Intouchables-style foreign-language ambush on the global mainstream, and Studio Ghibli's brand clout making it the one predictable fixture: Goro Miyazaki's From Up on Poppy Hill did a respectable global run ($56m) and his dad's swansong, The Wind Rises, is certain – on the back on $119m in Japan – to surpass it next year.
Acts with large audiences and established brands like Radiohead, Madonna and the Eagles no longer need the labels' star-making clout.
The first option retains the bank's federalist character: the number of regional head offices, or Landeszentralbanken, would be cut from nine to seven, but their bosses would retain much of their present decision-making clout.
To insult him is a crime; to win favour brings honour and, quite possibly, wealth.By the reckoning of one prominent Moroccan analyst, all the kingdom's elected institutions together represent a mere fifth of actual decision-making clout.
In the cartoon, a pack of wolves sits baying at the moon while one wolf in the back row asks his neighbor: "My question is: Are we having any impact?" That is, he says, just how he feels as head of the plan association, a research-based agency with no policy-making clout but a responsibility to represent the public interest.
For example, could the CEO have have less executive power with a tennis advisory board, perhaps including Murray and some of the others I mentioned, having proper decision-making clout?
The bottom line is, unlike their first term in power, albeit with the support of the Indian Left, the UPA is a minority government without real law-making clout in its second term which will end this year.
"He foresaw it as something that would be perceived as someone getting clout for making a big contribution".
