Word: ousted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...school district travel 50 miles to class. The crisis in Crook, however, is distressingly familiar. Since last spring, taxpayers have rejected the school budget four times, finally settling for a version that was reduced by $90,000. A campaign was also begun to oust the school board; teachers' salaries were slashed by virtual coercion; a circuit court judge was called in to settle a ballot dispute; and campaigners on both sides were investigated by a grand jury. "All values were sacrificed to the cause," laments a local minister. "There was no more love, understanding or charity...
Governor Kirk, who with Gurney hatched the scheme to oust Cramer from his power perch in the state party, will not have the time or the inclination to resume the feud. The flamboyant Kirk will be fully occupied in trying to win a second four-year term for himself. To Kirk's consternation, Millionaire Druggist Jack Eckerd, an ardent Nixon supporter whose ideological bent is fully as conservative as Kirk's, got enough votes to compel a runoff. In Florida, incumbents who fail to win renomination by getting the necessary 50% of the initial primary vote usually lose...
...Price Waterhouse report also places Steinberg in a delicate position. To oust Maxwell from the Pergamon board. Steinberg obtained the backing of institutional investors who owned 15% of Pergamon's shares. Their price was an assurance that Leasco would bid for the shares it does not own within 60 days of receiving the Price Waterhouse report. Despite the dubious outlook for Pergamon's profits, Steinberg will soon have to make a bid, not only because he is committed to do so, but also because he has a $22 million investment to protect...
Flight to LA. Her first bout with notoriety occurred last year, when the regents began their long and ultimately successful effort to oust her as an assistant professor of philosophy. Threats and obscene telephone calls made her change her telephone number frequently...
...Republican Senate colleagues are considering a greater-and, for a first-term Senator, almost unprecedented -reward. As impressed with Dole's aggressiveness as they are dissatisfied with Senate Minority Leader Hugh Scott's frequent failure to back up the Administration, G.O.P. conservatives are quietly maneuvering to oust Scott and give the senior position to Freshman Dole...