Word: unseat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...point here is simple. The Democratic Party has a strong chance to unseat an incumbent next year. It has a rare opportunity to run against an Administration with no notable foreign policy successes, with an economy that can only be called in shambles, and with a line-up of high-level officials that may be the worst since Herbert Hoover...
...thus wresting it from foreign control. He incurred the wrath of the business world by raising the taxes the foreign companies had to pay Jamaica, an attempt to bring more revenue to the island. This taxation and other measures. Manley charges, later prompted the multinationals to back attempts to unseat...
...supporters are those who contend that the city's Democratic party is going to shambles anyway, so Washington might as well be in charge. Even after the city's voters had made their choice clear, newspapers have continued to write about Washington as if there were a chance to unseat him, mentioning in the same breath Washington's conviction after 18 years of failing to file his income tax, and his current proposal for raising the city's taxes...
Boston City Councilor Raymond L. Flynn--one of six candidates trying to unseat Boston Mayor Kevin H. White in November says he is the candidate of the city's minorities and neighborhoods...
...earn charge of the law enforcement office in this county--an area which includes 54 cities and towns and one-fourth of the electorate in the state--Harshbarger had to unseat 23-year incumbent John J. Droney in the Democratic primary. Harshbarger tried in 1978 and lost by a narrow margin. This September he won in a landslide...