Word: oust
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...send ground forces to oust the Taliban, would they stay to prevent the Talibans return to power...
...ignored the advice, and is paying the price. He has long staked his presidency on two issues: economic reform and improving relations with the North. Both issues are now killing him politically. Last week the legislature voted to oust Kim's closest aide, Unification Minister Lim Dong Won, after he allowed a left-wing delegation to travel to the North, where they disobeyed government orders not to participate in pro-Pyongyang propaganda events. Defecting to the opposition, junior coalition partner Kim Jong Pil engineered the no-confidence vote, destroying the ruling alliance. Kim quickly replaced five ministers, but with...
...triumph in a bitter power struggle for the Indonesian presidency, she was to be found not huddling with advisers, but watching the animated movie "Shrek." By all accounts Megawati has always imagined herself less a politician than a princess - the daughter of an overthrown king who would one day oust the usurper, reclaim her father's throne and save the nation...
...Technology is energizing grassroots politics of all stripes: call it powering up. In the Philippines, protesters using cell-phone text messaging mobilized hundreds of thousands of demonstrators in January to help oust President Joseph Estrada. Miguel Arroyo, husband of new President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, says her supporters kept urging everyone to head to the edsa shrine, the main focus of the People Power II movement. "We texted everybody to go running there: 'edsa. edsa: everybody converge on edsa!'" In China, tens of thousands of followers of the spiritual group Falun Gong continue to exist - despite a harsh crackdown...
...officially commences this week at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in Los Angeles, and there will be business casualties. Both systems are scheduled for fall release. The winner could easily oust Sony's PlayStation 2 from the top of the charts, while the loser could just as easily go the way of Sega's defunct Dreamcast, which sold only half its projected 6 million units before Sega pulled the plug...