Word: hammerism
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...Gore family's links with Occidental date back to the vice president's father's close relationship with Armand Hammer, the oil baron who created Occidental and who often found himself in the limelight of controversy because of his extensive investments in the old Soviet Union. When J. Edgar Hoover had accused Hammer of being a communist agent in 1962, Senator Gore defended him on the Senate floor, and after performing other favors for the company over the years, Gore Senior, after losing his Senate seat in 1970, took a job with an Occidental subsidiary for an annual salary...
...modern Olympics in Paris in 1896 there were no women competitors at all. In Sydney they number about 4,400, making up about 42 percent of competitors in 121 events. For the first time at these Games, women are taking part in modern pentathlon, taekwondo, water polo, hammer throw and pole vault as well as weight lifting...
...wanted to experience killing." The same month, a 17-year-old boy hijacked a bus, forced the driver into a 19-hr. expressway odyssey and killed a passenger along the way. Also in May another teen was accused of severely beating a sleeping commuter-train passenger with a hammer...
...real Final Four should get such ratings. In fact, NCAA officials are hoping to benefit from the additional publicity-by-association. Plus, they're both reality-TV shows on CBS. The network's lawyers were able to hammer something out with each other...
Corpzilla's organizers say it is also a protest against the corruption of politics by corporate and special interest money, one of the foremost complaints in Philadelphia this week, a cause around which both Republican Senator John S. McCain and artist Melina Hammer can rally...