Word: hammering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Similar questions arise about the appointment of Armand Hammer, chairman of Occidental Petroleum, as head of the President's Cancer Panel. In 1975, Hammer pleaded guilty to three misdemeanor charges involving improper contributions to the campaign fund administered by Stans. It was hardly a major matter, and Hammer is an esteemed U.S. business leader. But if the President wanted a successful corporate executive to chair this panel, surely there was someone available who had not openly confessed to illegal political activities...
University officials are currently meeting with DOL representatives to discuss Harvard's affirmative action record in hiring and to hammer out a "conciliation agreement" to resolve any problems DOL finds. DOL officials were unavailable for comment yesterday...
...chair was rented and installed at Soviet insistence. The Soviets also asked for a scale and an electric fan. Because Brezhnev sleeps in a sitting position, dozens of pillows were brought from Moscow. To make Brezhnev feel at home, the Soviets installed call buttons stamped with the hammer and sickle...
...turnout is good, for a Sunday afternoon in the middle of midterms. People have been trailing in and out to hammer and paint all day, as they always do the Sunday before a mainstage show goes up. During that day, the Day of the Put-In, cast, crew, friends and relatives come by to act as "larries"--christened, a techie explains, after a certain person's cousin Larry, who became an institution for the time he devoted to enthusiastic but unskilled labor...
...cast manages to hammer home Miller's point excellently, but this statement about American life seems slightly dated (although perhaps only to those of us who can barely remember back past the '60s). Miller tells us to be true to ourselves, to find our real vocation, and to avoid the dead end of the American business world. But Sartre is fading, and preoccupation with self-exploration has given way to less taxing concerns. No existential conundrums can grip today's imaginations; people have finished with searching their souls; it has gone out of fashion. Miller's presentation is emotionally gripping...