Word: ouster
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some folks just can't take a hint. Critics have demanded the ouster of Los Angeles police chief Daryl Gates ever since the brutal beating of a black motorist by white L.A.P.D. officers last March was videotaped and aired repeatedly on national TV. When a commission headed by former Deputy Secretary of State Warren Christopher recommended new leadership for the force in early July, Gates said he had no intention of "running away." Later, when two members of the city council announced that Gates had agreed to retire by the end of this year, the chief suggested he might keep...
...Luxembourg and headquartered in London, had more than 400 branches and subsidiaries around the world and was nominally owned by Arab shareholders from the gulf countries, B.C.C.I. was always a Pakistani bank, with its heart in Karachi. Agha Hasan Abedi, the bank's founder and leader until his ouster last year, is a Pakistani, as are most of the bank's former middle managers. And it was in Pakistan that the bank's most prodigiously corrupt division was spawned...
...Baton Rouge, La., where Gorman was confronted with charges of adultery and pressured into resigning his ministry immediately. Gorman closed the circle two years later when he unveiled surveillance photos of Swaggart emerging from a motel room with a prostitute. That led in short order to Swaggart's ouster and the gradual dissipation of his far larger teleministry. But wrecking his nemesis -- while offering ostensibly sympathetic prayers for him -- did not satisfy Gorman. Now he is suing for wealth he believes would have been his were it not for Swaggart's vendetta, which Gorman says was motivated by business rivalry...
...competitors by challenging their brand of gay activism with a more militant stance. Outweek's upscale readership should have appealed to big-budget advertisers, but they shied away apparently because the magazine's attitude was controversial even in the gay community. In recent weeks staff infighting brought about the ouster of Gabriel Rotello, Outweek's editor and guiding spirit...
...federal government is moving too fast and is sacrificing Slovak jobs without providing credible alternatives. "The federal government understood conversion as a gesture of cooperation toward the West," says Vladimir Meciar, the combative former Slovak Prime Minister who railed against federal policy and flirted with separatism until his ouster in late April. "They hoped there'd be a payoff, but they're still waiting." Unemployed factory workers, though, may become restless waiting for new jobs...