Word: ousting
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...policy in the first place, clamored for a cease-fire on any terms. They also questioned on what authority the attack on Elisabethville had been ordered. In response, O'Brien indicated that Secretary-General Hammarskjold had authorized the attack after Tshombe had ignored a U.N. ultimatum demanding that he oust all foreign mercenaries from Katanga. But it was impossible to verify what Hammarskjold actually had or hadn't authorized since a plane carrying him to a conference with Tshombe had crashed in the meantime, and the Secretary-General was dead...
...technique involves a public bid by an individual, group or company to buy a specified number of shares of another company's stock at a specified price, which is set high enough to woo sellers. It is quicker, harder to block, and often much cheaper than trying to oust the management of a company by soliciting proxies from shareholders...
Assigning blame for this confused state of affairs is like scolding two small boys for fighting over something that belongs to neither of them. Both sides share the guilt. The way that the five councillors chose to oust Curry established a bad precedent and was indiscreet. The city managership ought not to be a job which is actively sought after by one candidate or another. If there are councillors who are dissatisfied with the present manager, they ought to confront him and ask for changes. If this strategy fails, then they ought to look for someone else...
...seems to have upset her most were new schoolbooks that depicted Lenin and Mao Tse-tung, instead of Mahatma Gandhi, as the true heroes of the oppressed. "Everything the Communists are doing is wrong," she cried as she hurried back to Delhi and forced the hesitant central government to oust Kerala's Red rulers and place the state under federal supervision...
...Lutheran officials are outraged by the plan. They could not get Holy Cross parishioners to oust Apman as their pastor, but have persuaded them to delay approval of the merger until March. Recently the Rev. S. C. Siefkes, president of the A.L.C.'s North Pacific District, visited Holy Cross to warn parishioners of the doctrinal dangers involved in the plan-chiefly the Episcopal belief in the apostolic succession of bishops...