Word: ousters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After Wladyslaw Gomulka's 1970 ouster as Communist Party Chief, following a disastrous series of riots over food prices, his successor came to power on a wave of popular good will, a man of the people who would change things. As gregarious and outgoing as Gomulka was dour and withdrawn, Edward Gierek began meeting directly with workers to hear their complaints. Time and again he asked: "Will you help me?" Delighted with his down-to-earth style, the workers shouted back: "We will...
...million to the company's $561.6 million profits last year. Hooker is also under legal attack for having dumped industrial wastes in the Love Canal outside Buffalo, an episode that occurred before Occidental acquired the firm. Merszei did not try to disguise his wounded feelings about his ouster as president. Said he: "The moves were all instituted and organized by Dr. Hammer. He has a great vision. I have great confidence in him, but sometimes there are things that I do not understand...
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...