Word: oust
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...after the Webster decision, pro-choice activists held a rally and declared all anti-abortion politicans politically dead. They vowed to organize plans to oust any elected official who disagrees with their position. The anti-abortion camp has been far less vocal in the aspect, but many anti-abortionists would only vote for candidates who agree with them. This closed-minded attitude is destructive to democracy...
...Well, I'd say, I wouldn't kill them, but I'd definitely oust them because I think the women's center is such a better idea," said Gabrielle C. Burton '92, another student who wants to alter the plan...
...oust club members, what can we do with them? Rehabilitation is too tedious and painful. Also, we have no guarantee that the new and improved ex-members would not revert to their evil ways. The importance of our quest allows no room for error...
...particularly true if the U.S.S.R. unraveled to a point at which a Russian chauvinist republic might control it. Such concerns are real, if premature. As William Webster, the director of the CIA, testified in Washington last week, it is possible that Gorbachev's enemies could one day try to oust him. But for now, "those demanding an acceleration of reform still have the upper hand...
...Short of a palace coup, at this point the hardliners have no way to oust Gorbachev," Pipes said. "His control of the Party is too great to allow them to overthrow him by political methods...