Word: ouster
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...twist for the publishing house, which is owned by S.I. Newhouse's media conglomerate. Evans, 62, was brought in to replace Joni Evans (no relation), one of New York's most high-powered book editors, who joined Random House in 1987. Her reassignment followed by just a year the ouster of the company's longtime chief executive, Robert Bernstein, who was replaced by Alberto Vitale...
...similar disaffection with Bhutto muted criticism of her ouster. Educated at Harvard and Oxford, Bhutto nevertheless seemed to govern Pakistan as she would have a feudal kingdom. Her government appeared to operate largely by petition; she bartered Cabinet seats for increased support in Parliament, and she was unwilling to allow the army, which she distrusted, to interfere in the violent politics of her power base in the province of Sind. While a cordon sanitaire of friends and relatives kept her insulated from critics, she made sure her public appearances received immense media coverage. Like Aquino's, Bhutto's reputation...
Richard Darman Office of Management and Budget. The director's machinations during the budget talks hurt the President politically. Even some Republicans want Darman's ouster. But he will hang on for now, partly because he is indispensable to Bush on a daily basis, partly because he refuses to leave until something better turns...
...Bhutto repeatedly compared her unceremonious dismissal to his ouster...
Since the 1987 Vatican-inspired ouster of the Rev. Charles Curran from the theology faculty at Washington's Catholic University of America, educators have nervously waited for the first papal decree setting overall policy in higher education. Would John Paul II, who is determined to restrict dissident theologians, lay the ground for further purges? When the decree was finally issued last week, most academicians greeted it with relief. It seemed to be an endorsement of free intellectual investigation and the autonomy of academic institutions. But while the Pope had decided against a strategy of direct confrontation, there were passages...