Word: oust
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Even as an elated Chalabi declared, "We can do it!," much of Washington scoffed. "Nobody around here is naive," acknowledged a Clinton aide involved in the effort. "There's no easy way either to directly oust him or to create an opposition group that over time can do it." In fact, say military analysts, the liberation law is a fine symbol to show that the U.S. stands with the people of Iraq against Saddam, but it is hardly a blueprint for his demise...
...fighting serious legal battles in the '50s and '60s over the right to distribute homoerotic material and writings on gay topics through the mail, the lack of legal social spaces in which gay couples and singles could congregate, the exclusion of homosexuals from the military and the attempts to oust the supposedly subversive gay officials from government positions. Important cases had already been tried and large demonstrations has been made by the time of the Stonewall riots. The riots thus represent not the first step in a process of liberation, but rather an important link in a chain of events...
...they ended up down by five seats, House Republicans have found a scapegoat in Speaker Gingrich - not to mention most of their leadership. While the situation is extremely fluid, one proposed slate of candidates is slowly gaining currency: Bob Livingston for Speaker, replacing Newt; Steve Largent for majority leader, ousting Dick Armey; and Jennifer Dunn for conference chair, knocking John Boehner aside. Tom DeLay, the party whip, would keep his job. Livingston, currently the Appropriations committee chair, is hardly anyone's idea of a 1994-style revolutionary. But the young rebels who attempted to oust Newt in 1997 might...
...This was the Republicans? election to lose," says TIME Washington correspondent Jay Branegan, "and it appears they have." Heading up the GOP casualties: outspoken New York Senator Al D?Amato, unseated by Rep. Chuck Schumer despite spending a record-breaking $22 million; California challenger Matt Fong, who failed to oust Sen. Barbara Boxer; and in North Carolina, the ultraconservative Lauch Faircloth, who lost out to John Edwards in a bellwether race that Democrats were watching closely. Few will doubt that they succeeded beyond their wildest dreams...
Most Cantabrigians will be judges in either a rematch of the 1996 race in which incumbent Alice K. Wolf beat Vice Mayor Anthony D. Galluccio by 89 votes or a three-candidate effort to oust the five-term part-time Harvard security guard Alvin E. Thompson...