"They have enormous bargaining clout because they have the power to stop all those goods."

Too often, the experts say, temporary tenants approach the negotiations with the idea that they have no bargaining clout.

Those companies will have more bargaining clout than an individual elderly person but far less than the federal government.

And with every senior citizen in the nation enrolled in the same Medicare drug plan, the government's bargaining clout would increase exponentially.

The group has been unable to persuade other unions to use their bargaining clout to negotiate health care contracts with union doctors.

"In the long run, they will have to organize all the nonunion operations or else lose their bargaining clout."

Buying firms, which are invariably more powerful than farmers, may use their bargaining clout to their financial advantage.

"In a global market it would be desirable to have a limited number of players with more bargaining clout."

Under that theory, consumers and businesses would band together into regional cooperatives to buy insurance, thus maximizing their bargaining clout.

The druggists have also banded together to form buying units in hopes of increasing their bargaining clout with drug manufacturers.