Word: oust
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reagan has turned on Noriega, but can't manage to dislodge him from Panama. While the Reagan administration has refused to move decisively to oust Noriega, it has imposed economic sanctions supposedly aimed at punishing him which have in reality punished the Panamanian citizenry. Chaos reigns in Panama...
...decade, Splash, in which Daryl Hannah played a frisky mermaid. But by then the company's profits and stock price were already plunging. The same day that Disney released the film, Roy Disney made a splash of his own by resigning from the board to launch an effort to oust the top management. He sensed an outside takeover looming, which he aimed to fend off. Meanwhile, Manhattan Raider Saul Steinberg, hearing a tip about Disney's turmoil, began to buy a huge chunk of its stock. Contending that Disney was worth more money in pieces than as a whole, Steinberg...
Vellucci also received endorsements last night from Somerville Mayor Eugene Brune and Alderman John Buonomo, Buonomo, who has been defeated twice by Marie Howe, called the Cantabrigian's attempt to oust Howe long overdue...
...journalists. Within days, a Washington-backed general strike began to crumble, easing the pressure on Noriega to leave and making it clear to all that he remained in charge. Conceded Elliott Abrams, Assistant Secretary of State for Inter- American Affairs and chief architect of the White House campaign to oust Noriega: "I guessed wrong. I thought he'd be gone...
...tensions mounted, White House Spokesman Marlin Fitzwater implied that the U.S. was reviewing its military options to oust Noriega. Washington announced it would dispatch 1,300 additional troops to Panama this week to bolster security for American facilities and citizens along the Panama Canal. The force will complement a 10,000-troop garrison stationed at U.S. Southern Command headquarters in Panama. But Wayne Smith, a U.S. diplomat in Latin America from 1979 to 1982 and now a senior fellow at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, warned against using U.S. force to topple the general. Said...