Word: ousted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...everything from harmonizing taxes on business to a joint policy on monopolies. France refuses to join in a common credit policy toward the Iron Curtain countries, since such limits on her freedom would cut across De Gaulle's aim of wooing Eastern Europe. France has been striving to oust EEC Commission President Walter Hallstein, a persistent foe of De Gaulle's narrow nationalist design for Europe. With the present nine-man EEC commission shortly due to be consolidated with the Coal and Steel Community and Euratom into a single 14-man executive body, the other five nations have...
...policy in the first place, clamored for a cease-fire on any terms. They also questioned on what authority the attack on Elisabethville had been ordered. In response, O'Brien indicated that Secretary-General Hammarskjold had authorized the attack after Tshombe had ignored a U.N. ultimatum demanding that he oust all foreign mercenaries from Katanga. But it was impossible to verify what Hammarskjold actually had or hadn't authorized since a plane carrying him to a conference with Tshombe had crashed in the meantime, and the Secretary-General was dead...
...technique involves a public bid by an individual, group or company to buy a specified number of shares of another company's stock at a specified price, which is set high enough to woo sellers. It is quicker, harder to block, and often much cheaper than trying to oust the management of a company by soliciting proxies from shareholders...
Assigning blame for this confused state of affairs is like scolding two small boys for fighting over something that belongs to neither of them. Both sides share the guilt. The way that the five councillors chose to oust Curry established a bad precedent and was indiscreet. The city managership ought not to be a job which is actively sought after by one candidate or another. If there are councillors who are dissatisfied with the present manager, they ought to confront him and ask for changes. If this strategy fails, then they ought to look for someone else...
...seems to have upset her most were new schoolbooks that depicted Lenin and Mao Tse-tung, instead of Mahatma Gandhi, as the true heroes of the oppressed. "Everything the Communists are doing is wrong," she cried as she hurried back to Delhi and forced the hesitant central government to oust Kerala's Red rulers and place the state under federal supervision...