Word: hammerism
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...with campaign-finance laws by having supposedly independent delegate committees accept and spend on his behalf donations that mostly came from labor political-action committees (PACs). Mondale has ordered the delegate committees to disband and pledged to give back about $300,000 in PAC money, but Hart continued to hammer away at the subject all last week...
...Schuler threw the hammer 163-ft., 8-in., to place fifth...
Against the backdrop of that episode, it was supremely ironic that when the hammer of American economic power finally smashed down, it did not strike the Russians or the military government of Poland, as the hard-liners in the Administration had wanted, but instead battered our friends and allies, started the most serious squabble within NATO in recent memory and placed self-generated strains on the alliance at the very time when Western unity was essential to deal with a whole range of politically explosive issues...
...steered his company to Socal in order to evade Pickens, could pick up some $10 million by exercising options to buy Gulf shares. A clutch of other officers can look forward to the same type of windfall. They include: President Edward Walker, $8.8 million; Executive Vice President Harold Hammer, $6.4 million; Executive Vice President Melvin Hill, $4.6 million; and J.L. Huitt, president of Gulf Oil Exploration and Production Co., $2.9 million...
...reputation as a mankiller. Fairchild plays the leader of a gang of gun-toting terrorists who attempt to hijack a truckload of weapons-grade plutonium in Texas. "I hope it doesn't seem too Hollywood," Fairchild says. "I have this little porcelain face, and short of taking a hammer to it, there's nothing you can do." Still, the 100-lb. beauty says that she had fun "blowing away" burly Good Guy Merlin Olsen with her trusty AK-47. Says she: "It was like the ant who took Chicago...