Word: dismissals
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...popularity, which had been rising steadily since she ordered an army assault on Sikh extremists at the Golden Temple in Amritsar last June. Although Gandhi still denies any involvement in the affairs of Andhra Pradesh, she nonetheless faces two equally unappealing options in the state: she can dismiss the assembly and impose direct rule from New Delhi or allow Rama Rao to be reinstated by a vote of the assembly. Either way she risks more unpopularity and a tough election campaign ahead...
...east. American officials suspected that the announcement might have been triggered by objections from Greek Communists, who are uneasy over the improving relations with the U.S. But because Athens still intends to join in a much larger NATO exercise in October, Greek and foreign observers were prepared to dismiss the sudden demise of Zeus as little more than a sacrificial act by Papandreou to placate the extreme left...
...traffic jam of omens, from bloody accidents to a neon sign that spells "spider" in Dutch on the front of her house. Later that night, Reve finds himself tormented with particularly nasty castration dreams that feature Christine wielding a pair of scissors in her blue-painted claws. Lest we dismiss the scene as a chuckle at Reve's castration complex and gender anxiety, within the next few shots we're shown Christine, applying steel-blue nail polish and' gleefully waving a very real pair of scissors. When Reve looks at the beach, he sees a bloody, mutilated man emerging from...
...Cuomo favorite. The Governor suggested that if St. Francis were alive today, his ascetic devotion to the poor, sick and oppressed might have led him to progressive politics and the ideals of the Democratic Party. Though Republicans may jeer at Cuomo's sudden secularization of a saint and dismiss his remarks about Darwinism as the origin of the specious, Democrats hope that the erudite comparison will serve them well in drawing the battle lines for the fall campaign...
...part of one plan being discussed last week, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation would accept most of Continental's bad loans, estimated at $4 billion, in return for an estimated 80% stake in the bank. FDIC Chairman William Isaac would then dismiss Taylor and other top officials and install new bank management. In addition, observers say, the FDIC would substantially reduce the bank's $34 billion in assets by selling some holdings. The regulators may spin off the Chicago institution's weakest units into another bank, already dubbed "Trashco" by Continental employees, which could then be declared...