Word: ousting
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...will those two improvements be enough to oust Navy and maintain the edge over Yale and Cornell...
When Mikheil Saakashvili led Georgia's bloodless "revolution of the roses" to oust Eduard Shevardnadze as President in November, he demonstrated formidable political skills: an ability to excite a crowd, a flair for clandestine organization, a taste for brinkmanship. Now President Saakashvili is using those skills to try and bring Ajaria - one of three breakaway regions - back into the fold. An economically important Black Sea region, Ajaria is run by Aslan Abashidze, a tough, rich autocrat Saakashvili has called a "feudal chief." When the President turned up on Ajaria's borders, ostensibly to campaign for allies running in the March...
...sabotaged so massively that WMD will soon be accessible to terrorists, if they are not already. Since 9/11, the U.S. has had to anticipate warlike terrorist attacks. We ask the U.N. to fight nuclear proliferation and make WMD-trading nations stop that activity or else we're going to oust their regimes one by one, for they promote terrorism. Iraq is next because it is sabotaging nonproliferation efforts." The resolve to face foes is key to leadership, but so is the capacity to convince friends. Stefan Brunner Munich...
...President couldn't muster the votes to fend off impeachment. Roh isolated himself politically last fall when he bolted the ruling Millennium Democratic Party (MDP) after a period of strained relations with party leaders. Last week, MDP lawmakers teamed up with legislators from the conservative GNP to oust him. Knowing they would lose a vote, members of the pro-Roh Uri Party?which holds only 47 of the Assembly's 273 seats?tried to block the March 12 balloting by forming a human shield around the Speaker's podium, hoping to prevent him from taking his seat and calling...
Glickman said that abortion was used as an “organizing tool” to oust him from office in Kansas—as soon as abortion was raised as an issue, he suddenly found that people who were never politically active were calling for his defeat...