Word: oust
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Many of New York City's 32 community school boards violently opposed the plan, which Chancellor Joseph A. Fernandez strongly supported. The school boards effectively mustered enough support to oust Fernandez, though his record as Chancellor had otherwise been a strong...
Olympio spoke hopefully of the possibility for the emergence of democracy in many of the African countries currently ruled by force. Yet he warned against the use of force to oust a repressive regime, cautioning "it is extremely dangerous to use force with people who have guns...
WALL STREET TAKES NO PRISONERS THESE DAYS, which James D. Robinson III, chairman for 15 years of American Express, discovered. The week began well enough when he faced down a timid board of directors. Some board members had sought to oust him, but he forced them to back down and got his protege, Harvey Golub, named chief executive officer. It seemed he had won the war over his succession, prompted by corporate missteps such as the acquisition of E.F. Hutton and faltering earnings. Wall Street, however, was not buying Robinson's triumph: in 10 minutes following the announcement, American Express...
...October 1990, the parents filed a suit charging that four Cambridge residents and four Cambridge officials had cooperated in a scheme to oust the elementary school from its location on Brattle Street for racial reasons...
...remove him from office and ordering the dissolution of an opposition-controlled security force. Citing "great danger" and accusing the group of "destabilizing society," Yeltsin outlawed the week-old National Salvation Front, a mixture of militant nationalists and Old Guard communists, who are determined to slow economic reforms and oust the President. The front vowed to defy Yeltsin...