Word: hammerism
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...Begin began to push his luck. Now, indirect involvement in the slaughter of Palestinians may suffice to topple the government. Indeed, Begin's Energy Minister Yitzhak Berman has already handed in his resignation. Other members of the cabinet--including Deputy Foreign Minister Yehuda Ben-Meir and Education Minister Zvulun Hammer--are reportedly thinking of quitting. And in Parliament, the Prime Minister's shaky coalition would have much trouble surviving a no-confidence vote. So Begin...
...offer was a fittingly dramatic move for Hammer, still an irrepressible empire builder at age 84. With Hammer at the helm, Occidental has grown in 25 years from a small, nearly bankrupt firm to an energy colossus with annual revenues of more than $14 billion. Much of the company's oil, however, comes from such politically unstable parts of the world as North Africa and South America. The firm has been anxious to increase its domestic holdings, yet it found few opportunities for obtaining energy property in the U.S. Hammer told TIME: "If you want elephants, you go where...
...general counsel, seemed to support that charge: "We were ready, willing and able to negotiate on any aspect of the proposed merger." But Gulf obviously was not. Said Chairman Lee: "I don't have the stomach to go through any such mess." Apparently Armand Hammer, even at 84, has a stronger stomach...
...capacity for change. Few novelists in years have written as well about the ferocious fragility of family love and family life as John Irving. The World According to Garp has a protagonist?no, a hero?who breaks conventional roles as if they were a halfhearted hammer lock, who not only tends the kids while his wife works and keeps the house in order, but actually takes joy in his tasks. Pride. Fulfillment. The book was more than a smash. It was a true literary phenomenon, and there are surely very few admirers of Garp who think, as the boys...
...juror summed up, "it came down to whether . . . you went with your instincts or your heart." Bonnie's mother Joan had a different interpretation: "If you have a $30,000 defense fund, a Yale connection and a clergy connection, you're entitled to one free hammer murder...