Word: oust
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Saturday meeting indeed proved dramatic. With a voice vote and show of hands, the N.A.A.C.P. board, with 59 of 64 members present, overwhelmingly decided to oust its executive director Benjamin Chavis Jr., 46, who had been beleaguered by tales of sexual harassment and financial mismanagement. Preparations had been tense, with the Nation of Islam providing security for Chavis even as 200 of his backers demonstrated their support. Earlier some anti-Chavis board members said they had received threats. However, in spite of an hour-long speech in his own defense, Chavis was unable to reverse his fate; board members Hazel...
...passed. It would be morally distasteful, Talbott declared, to help set up the junta's leaders outside Haiti. Perry countered that Talbott's inflexibility represented a peculiar morality. The U.S., he said, should explore all peaceful alternatives before risking American lives and hundreds of millions of dollars to oust Haiti's bosses...
...living in the U.S. and "an interest in stabilizing those democracies that are in our hemisphere." By any traditional measure, such interests are not vital to national security, and Americans are -- so far -- largely unconvinced. A TIME/ CNN poll last week asked if the U.S. should send troops to oust Haiti's military rulers. Only 31% of Americans supported the idea; 61% opposed...
Angry workers push to oust the military regime...
...been much change since Clinton took over.In specific hot spots around the world, Americans had pretty clear opinions. For instance, an overwhelming majority (69 percent) favor sending military troops to Rwanda to provide humanitarian aid. And 61 percent say they wouldn't want our soldiers to be sent to oust Haiti's government to restore Aristede...