Word: hammering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with campaign-finance laws by having supposedly independent delegate committees accept and spend on his behalf donations that mostly came from labor political-action committees (PACs). Mondale has ordered the delegate committees to disband and pledged to give back about $300,000 in PAC money, but Hart continued to hammer away at the subject all last week...
...Chairman Hammer's Venture
...Armand Hammer seems to go on forever. Last week he formally teamed up with a people who have gone on forever, the Chinese. The 85-year-old chairman of Occidental Petroleum signed an agreement with the People's Republic for the largest Sino-U.S. deal yet: a $580 million venture to mine coal from a huge pit at Antaibao, 310 miles west of Peking...
...Schuler threw the hammer 163-ft., 8-in., to place fifth...
Against the backdrop of that episode, it was supremely ironic that when the hammer of American economic power finally smashed down, it did not strike the Russians or the military government of Poland, as the hard-liners in the Administration had wanted, but instead battered our friends and allies, started the most serious squabble within NATO in recent memory and placed self-generated strains on the alliance at the very time when Western unity was essential to deal with a whole range of politically explosive issues...