Word: ouster
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...Begin came early to his Zionist zeal. He was born in a Polish town where his father was a leader in the Jewish community. After earning a law degree at the University of Warsaw, he became national commander of Betar, a right-wing paramilitary group that advocated the violent ouster of the British from Palestine. When the Germans invaded Poland in 1939, he fled to Lithuania, leaving behind his parents, who died under the Nazis. A year later, he joined the anti-German Free Polish Army and served with a unit that was attached to British forces in Palestine. There...
...administration's tacit acceptance of Aristide's ouster conveys a discouraging message to those who hope to reinstate the fledgling democracy of Haiti. The plan agreed to in Washington last week is only a token gesture which will have no effect in restoring political and personal liberty to Haiti as long as the country's military establishment opposes Aristide's return...
According to one line of speculation, the timing of the Nicholas ouster was dictated by Ross's health; he has been undergoing chemotherapy treatments for prostate cancer since last autumn. Directors and company officers who opposed Nicholas felt that they needed to ensure that if Ross died, Nicholas would not succeed him. But a number of other insiders say the move would have been made months earlier had it not been for Ross's illness. One crystallizing factor, apparently, was the death of Borg-Warner chairman James F. Bere, a longtime member of the Time Inc. board who remained...
Predictably, there was some immediate speculation from outsiders that the Nicholas ouster marked a final victory for the supposedly freewheeling Hollywood Warner Communications crowd over the reputedly more restrained, ! button-down old Time Inc. clique. "You have this group of Warner rowdies storming the gates of Rome," says a management consultant. "Just like the Visigoths made quick work of the Romans, the Warner people are quickly dispatching the remnants of the old Time...
...onetime waiter who bought the studio in 1990 for $1.3 billion, Parretti accumulated huge debts during his half-year tenure as CEO, forcing the company into involuntary bankruptcy. The studio's chief lender, the French bank Credit Lyonnais, pumped in $145 million to restore solvency but demanded his ouster. The Delaware judge agreed, condemning Parretti's mismanagement of the firm. The downward slide continued on Dec. 27, when Parretti was arrested and jailed in Sicily on tax-evasion charges...