Word: ousters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most of the action is local rather than national, but it can wreak havoc, as in Crane's case. After word of his gay "marriage" leaked back to the school in rural Byron Center (pop. 6,500), where Crane has been teaching for three years, outraged parents demanded his ouster. There were no grounds for firing him, especially since he had shaped up the once moribund school band to win a regional award. Instead, the school board proclaimed that "individuals who espouse homosexuality do not constitute proper role models" and promised to "monitor" Crane...
...Lions, Pistons, Red Wings and Tigers. Lou Whitaker, Alan Trammell and Jack Morris were my heroes in that magical year of 1984; later, I graduated to the Bad Boys and Hammertime bandwagons; today, I am a proud member of G.R.O.W. (Get Rid of Wayne), an underground organization seeking the ouster of the bumbling buffoon-cum-football coach Wayne "I Know my leg isn't broken, but I'm wearing this cast for good luck" Fontes...
...question is whether the sun will continue to shine on Viacom. The company's stock fell 3 5/8 on the day after Biondi's ouster, apparently reflecting Wall Street skepticism about Redstone's ability to run Viacom at his age. (The stock recouped a quarter of that loss the next day, closing the week at 37 7/8.) Redstone's response to the gerontology issue: "If Bob Dole thinks he can run the country at age 72," he told a company director, "then I can run Viacom...
...YORK CITY: In an industry that rarely keeps big secrets, media executives on both coasts were startled by the abrupt ouster of Frank Biondi as chief executive of Viacom late Wednesday. Biondi, a former HBO executive long viewed as the heir apparent to billionaire Viacom chairman Sumner Redstone, was widely respected for his management of an empire that included Paramount Pictures, Simon & Schuster Books, Blockbuster Entertainment and MTV. In a terse statement issued after the financial markets concluded trading for the day, Viacom said that Redstone, 72, had taken over Biondi's responsibilities and would be forming an executive committee...
...ouster, Bruce believes, will be "a personal affront to all those people who joined NOW since the Simpson verdict'' and serve to hasten its decline. NOW leaders "are practicing the politics of the left as opposed to the theories of feminism," she says. "People don't join NOW to work on a host of social-injustice issues. They join to work on women's issues." Just what those issues are, however, remains open to debate...