Word: hammerism
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...with his own works, but he scoffs at those ideas as both impractical and commercially suicidal. The theaters will still present a wide mix of plays, he says, in keeping with his broad-ranging multimedia strategy. "With control of these high-quality drama houses, think about his ability to hammer out alliances with young playwrights who can produce good plays that also have film potential," says Stephen Bannon, managing director of the investment bank SG Cowen, who advised Stoll Moss's parent company in the buyout. And Lloyd Webber has the financial heft to produce plays himself...
...dropped in unannounced on legislators, gave them nicknames and bear hugs and backslaps, went to pancake dinners and football games in their districts. He wasn't just making nice. He was reminding them that he had a mandate and meant to use it. One lawmaker calls this "a velvet hammer. It's a guy thing...
...guys Bush couldn't hammer were Laney and Bullock. At first, neither was sure about this new Governor who tried so hard to ingratiate himself. Could they trust him to keep his end of a deal? They found out during Bush's first session, when push came to shove on tort reform--a package of bills designed to rein in what Bush called "junk lawsuits that clog our courts." While it wasn't clear that frivolous lawsuits were out of control, business groups looking to limit their liability had for years been pouring money into the issue, helping create...
...their first few meetings, the committee will hammer out whether certain student groups should always have a slot on the committee and also will decide whether to have representatives from each House and class...
...McCain's failed effort that year to whack tobacco with a gargantuan sin tax. But he liked him well enough to lay out how to win South Carolina: go strong on the military and the restoration of dignity to the White House, hammer away at the Big Money interests in Washington and deliver the same straight message regardless of the polls, the day of the week or what part of the state you're standing in. Lie to one and you lie to all, Graham says, because cousins call cousins in South Carolina...