Word: hammering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Occidental's aged, autocratic chairman, Armand Hammer, 82, shoved aside the president he had installed only last year, Hungarian-born Zoltan Merszei, 57, an effective but sometimes abrasive former chairman of the Dow Chemical Co., and replaced him with Abboud. The ex-banker thus became the fifth man tapped for the Oxy-Pete presidency in the past decade by Hammer, who after 23 years at Occidental shows no signs of wanting to yield real authority to any possible successor. Said Hammer of his latest No. 2: "He's a brilliant banker and a smart businessman...
...also under legal attack for having dumped industrial wastes in the Love Canal outside Buffalo, an episode that occurred before Occidental acquired the firm. Merszei did not try to disguise his wounded feelings about his ouster as president. Said he: "The moves were all instituted and organized by Dr. Hammer. He has a great vision. I have great confidence in him, but sometimes there are things that I do not understand...
...Kennedy backers was the most impressive on a grand scale. The only person in the hall able even to dampen the spirits of the demonstrators was the orchestra vocalist, a bald, leather-jacketed hybrid of Johnny Rotten and Guy Lombardo who forgot the words to "If I Had a Hammer," an error that by all accounts was quite welcome. In the end, it was almost anti-climactic that Kennedy won his platform battle; his real fight, with the party, with the bitterness of a year-long campaign that led nowhere slowly, was won in the tide of cheers that refused...
...with which I traveled to Moscow, a tourist contingent sponsored by Track and Field News. "You are in a group," I was told, "of fans like no other-track fans-who will sit in the rain for four hours to watch someone throw a hammer. It doesn't matter to them where they are. They could be watching in the wastes of the Gobi Desert as long as someone grunts and there's a hammer in the air so everyone can lean slightly forward out of their seats and watch the thing land with a thump...
...major reason most people pick up a hammer is the high cost of home repairs. Carpenters in Chicago, for example, charge as much as $14 an hour, if they are available. Joseph Armento, an Atlanta social worker, has spent $550 on hardware and tools since he moved from an apartment into his own home. He admits to having a tough time even hanging curtains, but says, "I'm finding a need to acquire those skills. Prices are high...