Word: hammer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...next night, minutes after the Pope's plane landed outside Lima, bombs apparently planted by Shining Path exploded at four electricity towers, plunging sectors of the capital into darkness; a large hammer-and-sickle was set ablaze on a nearby hillside. The Pope was never endangered, but the guerrillas had unintentionally summarized the point of his antiterrorist message. In Lima, when the Pope greeted an informal crowd that had gathered in a blacked-out street, a good-natured chant went up: "John Paul is light...
Skocpol said she has met with Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence, and will meet in the future with Sociology Department Chairman Aage B. Sorensen to hammer out the details of Harvard's offer...
...reshuffle in the Vatican last year, John Paul installed two other key hard-liners. Jean Jerome Hamer, 68, a Belgian, was dubbed "the Hammer" during his years as No. 2 man at the doctrinal congregation. He was John Paul's choice to replace the indulgent Eduardo Cardinal Pironio and keep a tight rein on the congregation that supervises religious orders. Hamer, now enmeshed in the crucial test of wills with U.S. nuns over the abortion issue, is deemed by some leading sisters to be uncommunicative and insensitive toward women. Augustin Mayer, 73, a German workaholic, was for years...
...Paul Prudhomme, the famed Cajun chef at the New Orleans restaurant K- Paul's, to prepare 29 dishes for 500 to 700 guests. The National Gallery ordered regional American dishes from Design Cuisine, a Washington caterer, to mark its exhibition of American paintings lent for the Inauguration by Armand Hammer, the millionaire industrialist. Some 250 guests were expected to sample Wisconsin veal, Puget Sound salmon, New England cranberries and beaten biscuits...
...days, and eroding the benefits of a merger for Diamond Shamrock's shareholders. Then, when Bricker's directors examined the terms of the merger, they saw that only two of them would sit on the board of the new firm. Bricker, meanwhile, would be stepping down. Hammer had agreed to buy out his $5.2 million contract with Diamond Shamrock. After a tense meeting early Monday morning in Dallas, the Diamond Shamrock board nixed the accord. In Los Angeles, a press conference called by Hammer to announce the merger was abruptly canceled...