Word: ousts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Scowcroft's influence was perhaps most evident in Bush's handling of the gulf war. While the two men were angling for bluefish off the Maine coast a year ago, Scowcroft suggested the strategy Bush would pursue over the following year, predicting that sanctions would fail to oust Saddam Hussein from Kuwait, that war would be necessary, but that the U.S. should not expand its objective to include Saddam's removal from power...
...have launched a full-court press against him, with at least a dozen federal prosecutors and 25 DEA agents working on the case for the past year and a half. Although the State Department long viewed the Noriega indictment as a handy political stick with which to oust a greedy and unsavory ally, the Miami prosecution team sees it as a pure and simple drug case. "The alpha and omega of this case is narcotrafficking and personal enrichment," says Tom Cash, special agent in charge of the DEA's Miami office. "This case will be based on what Joe Friday...
...profits rose just 4%? No way, say furious investors led by the California Public Employees' Retirement System, the largest U.S. pension fund. Calpers, which holds 1.15 million shares of ITT stock, or about 1%, is so steamed over Araskog's raise that it has threatened to vote to oust the company's directors at the annual meeting next week...
...Jean-Bertrand Aristide won the presidency in the Dec. 16 vote. Pascal- Trouillot has said that she was kidnapped from her home and held hostage for 10 hours before loyalist troops stormed the National Palace and ended the siege. But Lafontant contends he is not guilty of trying to oust the government, because Trouillot willingly handed power over to him. Many Haitians believe that Trouillot and other members of her government stole millions from the national treasury during her administration, but no charges have been leveled to date...
...course, Congress gave Bush the latitude to use "all necessary means" to oust Saddam from Kuwait. That licensed the quick and deadly Operation Desert Storm, which in turn launched Bush's approval ratings through the stratosphere, and made Congress look like nothing more than a hurdle on Bush's steady course toward...