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...proved, the Democrats would leave themselves open to the accusation of partisanship. In that case, not enough Republicans would support impeachment in the final vote -though the Democrats could force it through by simple majority-to convince the American people that the Democrats were not simply voting to oust a Republican nemesis...
...member of the jury panel. One woman, who has already been tripped up, gave open-minded answers in court that contradicted computer predictions. A tip revealed that far from being the regular Methodist churchgoer she claimed to be, she had actually quit her church after an unsuccessful fight to oust a minister she considered too liberal. She was dismissed for cause by Judge Fred Nichol because of her lack of candor...
...Early mannequins were sculpted from wax, and had a tendency to droop and drip in sunny display windows. Later came models of plaster, papier-mache and several varieties of more durable plastic. Though small boutiques balk at the idea of discarding outmoded dummies (average price: $300), most larger stores oust passe mannequins as quickly as last season's duds. But groupings, which can be easily rearranged into different patterns, may have a longer life than most individual mannequins...
...power in 1949, it declared its disgust with Western imperialism, the predatory phenomenon that had weakened China immeasurably, and then embarked on a campaign to rid the country of foreign encroachments that would stand in the way of building a strong modern world power. With the urge to oust the imperialists from all of Asia, Chinese military expenditures reached new peaks. In its attempt to achieve lost self-respect, international prestige and world power, the Chinese leadership appealed to the nationalist sentiment that pervaded the Han majority, successfully merging its theory of revolutionary communism with the seemingly contradictory impulse...
loannidis used his power base as the nation's police chief to oust his old boss, who he felt was liberalizing life in Greece much too quickly. Just what plans loannidis now has for Greece remain unclear. Some observers consider him a rigid, puritanical xenophobe-he has never been outside Greece or Cyprus -who might try to turn Greece into a European equivalent of Muammar Gaddafi's Libya. One thing is certain: he does not plan to return Greece to democracy any time soon...