Word: overthrows
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...matter is crucial because Khomeini has come to realize how little he can afford to antagonize the bazaari, the prosperous and traditional merchants who helped finance his overthrow of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi. Four years ago the Ayatullah sneered that "economics matters to donkeys." By now, he has been heard to confess, "If the bazaar opted out of the Islamic Republic, the republic would face defeat...
Iraq, which began the war in September 1980 in an attempt to overthrow the regime of Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, which seemed quite vulnerable at the time, has belatedly realized that it can neither win nor afford the conflict. By threatening to destroy Iranian installations, including the Kharg Island oil terminal, Iraq hopes to push other gulf nations and oil-dependent Western countries into pressing Iran to negotiate a peace agreement...
...some parts of the Sunbelt, demand was doubling every seven years, practically overnight in an industry that normally plans on a 15-to-20-year schedule. The world of energy economics, though, was about to change. After the second oil shock, in 1979, which followed the overthrow of Iran's Shah, the price of OPEC crude reached as high as $40 per bbl. Energy consumers reacted to the staggering prices by conserving fuel in a way that had never been imagined. Demand for electricity increased by only 1.7% in 1980 and .3% in 1981 and actually shrank...
...Antonio Maceo. Then all eyes shifted to the central balcony, where President Fidel Castro, 56, stood alone, his head bowed. Stepping to the lectern, Castro used words he had first uttered to a frenzied and much larger crowd from the same spot exactly 25 years earlier, announcing the overthrow of Dictator Fulgencio Batista: "The revolution begins...
Seven weeks after U.S. Navy Seals slipped silently onto Grenada's beaches, starting an invasion that led to the overthrow of the island's unstable Marxist regime, the last U.S combat troops were headed home. On the airstrip at Point Salines, still unfinished, the first ranks of approximately 1,000 paratroopers let out a whoop of welcome as three giant C-141 transport planes, mottled in camouflage colors, hummed into view...