Word: oust
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...largest U.S. public relations firm, Hill & Knowlton announced that it would merge with No. 3 Carl Byoir to become No. 1 in p.r. (projected 1986 revenues: $125 million). The proposed $12 million acquisition, coming only two weeks after Hill & Knowlton bought the flourishing Gray and Co. in Washington, will oust Burson Marsteller from the industry's top spot...
Ethiopia's deepest fears center on the U.S. The African nation's leaders are worried that the Reagan Administration may back rebel forces against Addis Ababa, just as it supports contra efforts to oust the Marxist-Leninist Nicaraguan regime. Yet officials in Washington, which provided $282 million in emergency aid to Ethiopia last year, say they have no wish to topple Mengistu. Notes a senior diplomat: "We've told the Ethiopians that we would like to engage in a serious dialogue with them. Every time we propose a place and a time, we are rebuffed...
...protracted and sometimes bloody effort to oust Marcos had indeed come to an end. Carried by a ground swell of popular emotion and aided by Marcos' Defense Minister, Juan Ponce Enrile, and Vice Chief of Staff, Fidel Ramos, who suddenly defected to their cause, Filipinos had mounted an essentially unarmed, democratic revolution and, perhaps to their own astonishment, triumphed. In a period of only 78 hours, as his troops and tanks backed off from confrontations with thousands of demonstrators, Marcos slipped swiftly from undisputed one-man rule to no rule at all. Just after Aquino took her presidential oath, Marcos...
Shortly before Thanksgiving, members of theEndowment for Divestiture, an alternative to theclass gift fund held in escrow until theUniversity divests, threatened to oust Offut fromthe endowment presidency. Offutt, endowmenttrustees said, was not being energetic enough insoliciting funds...
...Moussa, who led an unsuccessful military campaign to oust Arafat from the PLO leadership, made clear to Khadafy outside the conference hall that he was not interested in joining a new terrorist campaign, the sources said...