Word: oust
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...William Cobey, a former University of North Carolina athletic director, who tired to oust a five-term representative with a media based campaign budgeted in excess...
They are the dukes of the American democracy, officials who possess broad powers in their states and, as a presidential year draws near, can exact tribute from the incumbent in the White House and those who want to oust him. All reason enough for the Reagan Administration to have put a high priority on maintaining at 23 the G.O.P.'s share of governorships. Another factor last week that made the gubernatorial races a bit more important to the President: his already unpopular New Federalism proposal to shift welfare burdens to the states depends on the Governors' cooperation...
...PATHETIC ATTEMPT last week by the Arab League to oust Israel from the United Nations arouses both anger and contempt. On the one hand, the Arab's hypocrisy in trying to go beyond their usual verbal assaults on the Jewish state inspires outrage. On the other hand, the counter-productive short-sightedness the Libyan-led move displayed seems evident...
...attacks came by air, land and sea. Relentlessly, day after day, Israeli forces rained destruction on Lebanon in their determined drive to crush the Palestine Liberation Organization and oust Syrian forces from the country. Waves of Israeli F-16s and F-4 Phantom jets screamed in over Palestinian-and Muslim-controlled West Beirut, dropping bombs. Israeli warships bombarded the city's coastline all the way from the airport area south of the capital to Beirut's Manara district, and the Avenue de Paris, near the sea, where many embassies and foreigners' residences are situated. From trenches, bunkers...
...their knock for arguing like any other student group. When the College refused them permission to include GSA pamphlets in students registration packets, they argued not as representatives of a minority sexual persuasion but as a legitimate student group--which they were. They argued so successfully that to oust them from the packet, the Faculty was forced to remove all other student activity leaflets, along with the GSA's to a hurriedly created "second packet." When the group tried to put a statement on the books affirming the College's opposition to anti-gay discrimination, its strategy of stressing parallels...