Word: overthrew
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...Mexico's working-class voters, who are pouring out for his whirlwind campaign stops through small, dusty pueblos like Teloloapan. Many are disillusioned with the progress of Mexico's democratization - especially its economic democratization - under current President Vicente Fox, of the conservative National Action Party (PAN), who in 2000 overthrew the venal and authoritarian Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which had ruled Mexico for seven decades...
...else it’s not a good outing. And Cole, he was rolling, so you’re not going to take him out when he’s rolling like that.“Haviland’s only misstep was with the glove, when he overthrew first base on a come-backer from the Tigers’ first batter of the game, Dan Degeorge, for a three-base error. Degeorge scored on Andrew Salini’s RBI double, making the score 2-1.Wilson tacked the Crimson to an early 2-0 edge when he launched a longball...
...Nearly four years after the U.S.-led coalition overthrew the Taliban, Afghanistan is still stumbling on the path to peace and stability. The country is nowhere near as violent as it was before; it has a new constitution that enables the establishment of civil institutions like an independent judiciary; and foreign investment is trickling in. Outside the capital Kabul, however, much of the hinterland remains poor and lawless, often controlled by rival warlords and drug barons who do not answer to the central authorities. The presidential election that Hamid Karzai won last year should have given the divided country...
...history of Spanish friars who ruled towns and villages. His moral authority prevented Philippine governments from promoting family planning, and as a result, the country's population growth rate is the highest in Asia, particularly among the poor. He helped engineer a second People Power revolt in 2001, which overthrew Joseph Estrada. Many of his obituaries pointed out that for a man of the cloth, Sin had a healthy appetite for affairs of the state. "Sin's spirituality," wrote veteran newspaper publisher Max V. Soliven, "was overshadowed by his propensity to meddle in politics...
...work out quite that way. Just six months after her triumphant return, Bhutto last week announced that she was dropping her campaign for immediate elections. Eventually, she still hopes to oust Zia, the general who overthrew her father, Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, in a 1977 coup and whose government executed him two years later...