Word: coup
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...signed her to a new record contract that could be worth as much as $80 million and is, by some accounts, the most lucrative record deal in history. Questions remain about the pre-nups to this corporate marriage. Did she get what she wanted? Was this megadeal a strategic coup for Virgin? Then there's this expensive issue: What will other superstars be asking for next...
...case was tried here, it implicates the U.S. in what has up to now been an Egyptian domestic problem. American leaders do not fully understand this, since the case itself concerned a major criminal conspiracy. The Mubarak regime will probably collapse before too long, either from a military coup or from a fundamentalist revolt. At that point, the U.S. will be seen as allied with the failed regime, which will make relations with Egypt very difficult. Losing Egypt would be dangerous for the U.S. because it is the center of gravity for the Arab world with nearly half...
...Zyuganov joined several nationalist organizations and participated in a drive against Yeltsin, the President of Russia. When the ban was lifted in 1992, Zyuganov re-created his party and became chairman of its Central Committee, the post he still holds. He was an early supporter of the 1993 coup against Yeltsin, although he eventually disavowed violence. Today he leads a party of more than 500,000 members and a political machine with branches in every region of Russia...
RECOVERING. CHUN DOO HWAN, 64, former South Korean President; from a 26-day hunger strike; in Seoul. Chun was arrested in December for his role in the 1979 coup that brought him to power. He was given oxygen and an intravenous drip, and should be well enough to be tried in about a month...
...seater EV-1 Thursday at the Los Angeles Auto show. Detroit bureau chief William McWhirter reports that the EV-1 is an update of the Impact prototype that has been in development for the past decade: "This is not so much a technological breakthrough as it is a political coup by Jack Smith that caught the entire industry off guard. It may be a sign that GM is ready to shake off some of its marketing slumber of the past four years and is ready to aggressively take on industry leaders such as Chrysler." With a limited range of under...