Word: hammering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...anonymity, Olayan is well known to influential Americans such as Occidental Petroleum Boss Armand Hammer, former Bechtel Chief Stephen Bechtel and Chase Manhattan Bank Chairman David Rockefeller. Says Olayan, whose investment in Chase is second only to Rockefeller's 1.7%: "I make quite sure that my share is always smaller than his." The man in charge of Olayan's U.S. operations, run from its headquarters on Manhattan's Park Avenue, is ex-Treasury Secretary William Simon, who is also one of Ronald Reagan's advisers...
...local groups like Ship Out Bayh (SOB) and Anybody But Church (ABC), went to work, raising money, registering voters and turning out pamphlets and television commercials, all designed to put the incumbents on the defensive. Stressing issues like abortion, defense spending, and "social engineering," the conservatives started to hammer away, and in every case, their efforts seemed to be working, for each state, if presidential returns are any indication, is more conservative than its senator...
...strikes me as unlikely that the state legislature--which has maintained the property tax in its current form for 25 years--will be able to hammer out sensible reform in a single term. And if they don't, it means disaster," Sullivan said...
Negotiators for striking workers and management at Harvard's Medical Area Total Energy Plant met in a marathon session yesterday in an attempt to hammer out a contract settlement that would put an end to the ten-day-old walkout of engineers and assistants who run the plant...
...China. The arrival of the Iranian mission at the U.N. sent a delicious shudder through Foggy Bottom. Castro's release of imprisoned Americans was viewed as an effort to soothe troubled waters for whoever wins the Oval Office-but Castro wants Carter. The word leaked out that Armand Hammer, the U.S. industrialist and buddy of Brezhnev's, came straight from Moscow last week with a secret letter of peaceful portents from the Soviet President for his American counterpart. Begin's slight shift on the Palestinians seemed designed to burnish his U.S. image before the big ballot...