Word: hammerism
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...reshuffle in the Vatican last year, John Paul installed two other key hard-liners. Jean Jerome Hamer, 68, a Belgian, was dubbed "the Hammer" during his years as No. 2 man at the doctrinal congregation. He was John Paul's choice to replace the indulgent Eduardo Cardinal Pironio and keep a tight rein on the congregation that supervises religious orders. Hamer, now enmeshed in the crucial test of wills with U.S. nuns over the abortion issue, is deemed by some leading sisters to be uncommunicative and insensitive toward women. Augustin Mayer, 73, a German workaholic, was for years...
...Paul Prudhomme, the famed Cajun chef at the New Orleans restaurant K- Paul's, to prepare 29 dishes for 500 to 700 guests. The National Gallery ordered regional American dishes from Design Cuisine, a Washington caterer, to mark its exhibition of American paintings lent for the Inauguration by Armand Hammer, the millionaire industrialist. Some 250 guests were expected to sample Wisconsin veal, Puget Sound salmon, New England cranberries and beaten biscuits...
...meeting in Los Angeles two weeks ago, Occidental Chairman Armand Hammer, 86, and Diamond Shamrock Chairman William Bricker, 52, were discussing Bricker's plans to take over a third oil firm when they began exploring a merger of their companies. As a team of more than 100 investment bankers and advisers labored through the weekend to work out the details, an arrangement took shape in which stockholders in the two firms would trade their shares one for one for stock in a new holding company. Under the terms, according to sources at Occidental, Diamond Shamrock would have become a wholly...
...days, and eroding the benefits of a merger for Diamond Shamrock's shareholders. Then, when Bricker's directors examined the terms of the merger, they saw that only two of them would sit on the board of the new firm. Bricker, meanwhile, would be stepping down. Hammer had agreed to buy out his $5.2 million contract with Diamond Shamrock. After a tense meeting early Monday morning in Dallas, the Diamond Shamrock board nixed the accord. In Los Angeles, a press conference called by Hammer to announce the merger was abruptly canceled...
...court of appeals, this was a "classic and coolly crafted libel." But not to Bork. Ollman, he reasoned, was no cloistered academic. He boasted that most of his students became Marxists and had invented a Monopoly- like game called Class Struggle, in which workers moved a little hammer around . a board while capitalists moved a top hat. With such advocacy, wrote Bork, Ollman had made himself a public figure and therefore "must accept the banging and jostling of political debate" in which some factual assertions should be treated as "rhetorical hyperbole" and hence as opinions...