Word: ouster
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Valente's ouster was especially acrimonious. Instead of a polite parting common to executive firings, the RCA press release stated bluntly: "Mr. Valente's performance over nearly six months did not meet expectations." Industry insiders say RCA Chairman Edgar H. Griffiths, 59, was offended by Valente's loose work habits and freewheeling lifestyle, such as his personal use of company airplanes...
With that terse message, Radio Uganda last week proclaimed the ouster of President Godfrey Binaisa, 59. Scarcely a year after the overthrow of the despotic Idi Amin Dada and the installation of a civilian regime, the military was back in power. Protested one opponent of the army takeover: "They have succeeded in hijacking the government...
...Hers T-shirts that she and Rush wore around campus and at the office. But if, as professor Camille Pagila once commented, "At Bennington, you can do it with the dogs and no one cares," then Bennington students, faculty and trustees must have had other reasons for demanding the ouster of college President Gail Thain Parker in 1976. Parker's need to explain her conflict with the Bennington community leads her to propose startling reforms of higher education in The Writing on the Wall: Inside Higher Education in America. But her personal motives shouldn't obscure the validity...
...military junta picked many of them for top jobs. They were given broad authority to cope with emergency in 1975, when the country lay in ruins, hammered by three blows in succession. First there was the economic chaos that preceded and immediately followed Allende's bloody ouster, then the surge in oil prices, and finally the collapse of the price of copper, which accounted for more than 80% of Chile's exports...
...late-summer tradition, has not been invited back for 1980's Miss America contest. Parks took the news hard: "I never thought they'd pull a trick like this. It's a little shabby, isn't it?" No reason was given for his ouster, nor was a successor announced. Some names have been dropped, such as those of Entertainer John Davidson, 38, as sincere as Bert but far younger, and Singer Mac Davis...