Word: coups
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Premature Coup Rumors...
Fujimori is up for re-election in April. The man who took power in a 1992 self-coup had won broad support for his suppression of Maoist guerrillas and his efforts to jump-start the economy, but lately his approval rating has fallen from 90% to under 70%, largely due to the country's continuing widespread poverty. Fujimori has also suffered some personal embarrassments: his estranged wife Susana Higuchi embarked on a brief hunger strike last January, protesting her disqualification as a congressional candidate. Fujimori's Vice Minister of the Interior was rumored to have connections to drug traffickers after...
...entrance floor aims to give the visitor a coup de theatre, and it does. After a low entranceway the space soars, thanks to a circular well that rises clear through the building and finishes in the slanting oculus 130 ft. above. It transmits enough light down through the building for Botta to use a dramatic chiaroscuro of materials without sinking the interior in gloom-a striped floor of black and gray granite, for example...
JOSEPH ANTONINI Longtime chairman of troubled K Mart demoted in palace coup...
Frito-Lay Inc., which announced the tele-coup today, says the pitchsters' fees will go to charity, but they'll be guaranteed a "lifetime supply" of Doritos...