Word: coups
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bobo] had so many job offers it was amazing," said Henry Louis Gates Jr., chair of the Afro-American Studies Department. "His work is very exciting, pathbreaking.... It's a major coup...
...years later, Fujimori seized near dictatorial powers in a "self-coup" that savaged virtually every democratic institution in the country but enabled him to implement draconian security measures that eventually crippled both rebel movements. By 1993 Abymael Guzman, the Shining Path warlord whose face had not been seen in 25 years, was in jail and Polay had been recaptured. An elated Fujimori boasted to a Chilean reporter that "no one here in Peru any longer doubts that [Tupac Amaru] will be defeated this year...
ACCRA, Ghana: Erstwhile fighter pilot and coup leader Jerry Rawlings appears headed for reelection in Ghana's Saturday elections. With 60 percent of the voting districts reporting, President Rawlings was leading with 57 percent, while John Agyekum Kufuor had 39 percent of the vote. Rawlings, who first seized power in a 1979 coup, ruled over a single-party state until winning the 1992 elections with nearly 59 percent of the vote. Voter turnout was estimated at 65 percent to 70 percent of Ghana's 9.2 million eligible voters. Despite protests of election fraud by Kufuor supporters, international observers said there...
...hand, a financial coup, bringing a league that got $75,000 from Dumont television for its title game only in 1951 into one of the wealthiest sports entities in the world. The current television contract, for which Rozelle set the groundwork, gets $1.58 billion for four years from Fox alone, more than 2,000 times what Rozelle got in his first contract with...
Boris Yeltsin is resting easy after his recent heart bypass surgery. But what if his rest verged on eternal, and Russia veered toward a political coup? Investors with all their money stashed in U.S. stocks wouldn't have to worry much. The echo of political turmoil in distant markets might be barely audible when Wall Street is roaring like Niagara Falls. But for those invested overseas--through mutual funds or directly, in stocks--the noise would be more like a foghorn in their bedroom. The clamor of social, political and economic uncertainty just might send prices cascading lower...