Word: ouster
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...Nightly News to the lingering shame from Dateline's rigging of a crash fire to illustrate a piece about design defects in some General Motors trucks. An investigative report released by NBC last week found "misjudgments and professional lapses" in Dateline's production and led to the ouster of three producers...
...decadence. Modern Italians are learning that history can repeat itself. Their proud and prosperous country is in decline and free fall because of some nasty vices familiar to the Caesars: greed, complacency and a betrayal of trust by those on whom it was conferred. Last year the ignominious ouster of the lira from Europe's exchange-rate mechanism told Italians that their economy was not as resilient as they once thought. Then they were forced to confront the power of the Mafia. And for 18 agonizing months they have been discovering that the crooks are not confined to the Cosa...
Although he rewarded them with bonuses of up to 20%, it was not enough to keep a cabal of fed-up senior officers from secretly engineering his ouster. While it has become common for rebellious corporate boards to dismiss underachieving CEOs for uneven performance, this may be the first instance of a board's firing a chief executive for erratic behavior...
...part of white officers that in a violent situation, an unidentified black man is a dangerous criminal. It doesn't help that a similar situation took place in Nashville in December, when two white officers were dismissed for allegedly beating a black undercover cop; the two are appealing their ouster...
...other close scrutiny. Former Staff Sergeant Thomas Paniccia filed suit in U.S. District Court in Arizona last week to salvage his 11-year career, which ended in October after he, like Meinhold, acknowledged his homosexuality on national television. Former Naval Academy student Joseph Steffan is suing to reverse his ouster just weeks before his scheduled graduation in 1987. Former Army National Guard Colonel Margarethe Cammermeyer, a Vietnam veteran who served 26 years until she was identified as a lesbian, is suing to get her job back...