Word: hammered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...oddly enough, is not the hero of Romania's early struggles for independence who gives it its title, but Catherine Dean, the Victorian heroine. Her willingness to act to the hilt--even in delivering lines on the order of "What were you doing over there with papa and the hammer and that horrible wooden stake?"--is astonishing. It's a willingness understandably not shared by most of the rest of the company--they have lots of lines like "I broke in when I heard the dogs howling" and "How is your daughter and her 'nervous prostration'" and "Yes, Renfield...
...operations. The special tax benefits that Gulf enjoys as an oil company could provide a tax shelter for part of CNA's already considerable profits (nearly $100 million last year), thereby increasing the combined worth of the two companies. Such benefits appeal especially to Harold H. Hammer, Gulfs chief financial officer, who worked out the proposal. Hammer joined Gulf about a year ago after a clash with his old employer: William C. Norris, the blunt chairman of Control Data Corp., for whom Hammer had put together a string of mergers...
Sour suspicions about Watergate, the continued weakness of the dollar, the soaring price of gold-up to a record $118.75 an ounce in London-and the continued rise of inflation and interest rates combined to hammer the Dow Jones industrial average down 37 points, to 894. After a brief moment of sunshine, Wall Street again became a valley of despair...
...Idea in America, cover a wide range of issues, from urban renewal to historiography to pornography; yet, each essay is dominated by the same recurring themes, so much so that one often suspects that the chosen topic is a mere excuse, dealt with in summary fashion, for Kristol to hammer on his favorite ideas...
Following the empty pleasantries of the opening sessions, both sides presented their proposals for an agenda. Now the talks will likely resubmerge for a while, as diplomats for the two sides secretly hammer out an agenda, a place and an autumn date for the first full-dress meetings. U.S. officials, counseling "patience," have warned that MBFR may be "ten times as complex as SALT...