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WALL STREET TAKES NO PRISONERS THESE DAYS, which James D. Robinson III, chairman for 15 years of American Express, discovered. The week began well enough when he faced down a timid board of directors. Some board members had sought to oust him, but he forced them to back down and got his protege, Harvey Golub, named chief executive officer. It seemed he had won the war over his succession, prompted by corporate missteps such as the acquisition of E.F. Hutton and faltering earnings. Wall Street, however, was not buying Robinson's triumph: in 10 minutes following the announcement, American Express...
...October 1990, the parents filed a suit charging that four Cambridge residents and four Cambridge officials had cooperated in a scheme to oust the elementary school from its location on Brattle Street for racial reasons...
...remove him from office and ordering the dissolution of an opposition-controlled security force. Citing "great danger" and accusing the group of "destabilizing society," Yeltsin outlawed the week-old National Salvation Front, a mixture of militant nationalists and Old Guard communists, who are determined to slow economic reforms and oust the President. The front vowed to defy Yeltsin...
...checks totaling $143,857 on the House bank, he had a quip ready: "It's not like molesting young girls or young boys." Opponent Donna Peterson was not amused. The 32-year-old West Point grad, a former helicopter test pilot and business consultant, says she is going to oust Wilson from the East Texas seat he has held for 20 years...
CUBA: The Man Who Would Oust Castro...