Word: coups
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...small, no-frills gathering at the company's plant in Dearborn, Michigan, almost as an afterthought to the introduction of Ford's new Mustang. At General Motors 11 months earlier, affable, unassuming Jack Smith landed just as unceremoniously in that company's top job. Following the virulent boardroom coup that ousted his predecessor, chairman Robert Stempel, and most of his top executives, Smith ascended with no ritual at all, and settled down to business at the world's largest industrial corporation so quietly that he has seldom been seen or heard from in public since. At Chrysler, Bob Eaton owed...
...long list of aspirants, including a movie star, a ballerina, a poet, an Orthodox priest, a dress designer, a 55-year-old grandmother and a former Olympic weight-lifting champ. Not to mention a participant in the aborted coup of 1991 who spent nine months in prison for treason. Russians have no experience in democracy, so it is hardly surprising to see the ballot studded with celebrities who believe their charisma is more important than their political know...
...woman, who carried a hand-lettered signreading "Coup de Tat," spoke of her love forKennedy and her feelings of hopelessness andabandonment after his death...
...scoop, his coup," Schorr said...
...Greek colonels under the Junta government led a coup against Cyprus' president Archbishop Makarios...