He receives influential support in the committee's report, which calls for an increase rather than cuts to his budget.
Mr. Hsieh received an influential endorsement on Thursday.
Just this weekend, the French president received some influential support when Mario Draghi, the president of the European Central Bank, used an appearance at a Fed conference in Jackson Hole to call for E.U. countries, including Germany, to interpret their fiscal rules more flexibly.
The simplicity of the book's language and the direct appeal to the religious sensitivity of the individual in an uncomplicated way are perhaps the primary reasons why this little book has been so widely received and so deeply influential.
Craig A. Becker, president of the Tennessee Hospital Association, said his organization had received help from an influential Washington lobbyist: Thomas A. Scully, former administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, who is now a lawyer at Alston & Bird.
Around Yang's village, people say that the Party secretary spent about three hundred thousand dollars to win his race — influential residents received far more than just iPads — but she says people were not surprised.
After a string of critically received albums, the highly influential band — led by the brothers Curt and Cris Kirkwood — seemed poised to finally break into the mainstream after a critical nod from Nirvana's Kurt Cobain in the early nineties, but the momentum was tragically stifled when Cris developed a debilitating heroin habit.
"My thought was based a) on what I had seen in Australia, first during the World Cup and then during the recent Test matches against the Australians, when the admirable Jason Holder received scant support from influential players around him, and then b) on the fact that many West Indians know their way around the IPL, which must be useful.
"He had a stomach problem and had to go and see the doctor," explained the Everton manager, who will be without Howard and Gareth Barry for Sunday's game against Southampton after the influential midfielder received his fifth booking of the season.
Phone logs, released today under Florida's public records laws, show that in the days since the election, Ms. Harris has received calls from several influential figures in the Republican Party, including some who have been directly involved in the Bush presidential campaign.
