Word: unseat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last April, Cronkite told a crowd of cheering Harvard seniors on Class Day that their task was to unseat a "modern Four Horsemen of Apocalyse:" over-population, pollution, scarcity of natural resources and the proliferation of atomic weapons...
...Terry Dolan has come a long way since 1967. Armed with the most sophisticated mass-mailing system in the country--courtesy of New Right mastermind Richard Vigueric--Dolan helped unseat several of the Senate's most powerful old-guard Democrats last year. Among the "targets" who fell were George McGovern of South Dakota, Birch Bayh of Indiana, and Frank Church of Idaho. Now, Dolan plans to expand his attack--launching his leaflets at several members of the GOP up for re-election in 1982, including Sens. John Chafee (R-R.I.), Robert Stafford (R-Vt.), and Weicker, whom he will...
...much for Carborundum and that the copper company should have spent the money for improvement of its antiquated copper mines or distributed it to the shareholders. Berner then spent $75.5 million to buy 9.9% of Kennecott's shares and announced that he would lead a proxy fight to unseat the Kennecott management. If victorious, Berner planned to sell off Carborundum and pay out the money to Kennecott shareholders. In the process, he would have obtained control of Kennecott, a company seven times the size of Curtiss-Wright...
...surging Reagan tide: in Pennsylvania, former Philadelphia District Attorney Arlen Specter edged out former Pittsburgh Mayor Peter Flaherty; in North Carolina, John East, a professor of political science at East Carolina State University and protégé of Republican Senator Jesse Helms, came from behind to unseat Democratic Incumbent Robert Morgan; in Georgia, Herman Talmadge was upset by Businessman Mack Mattingly. Ironically, the man who next to Reagan is most identified with conservatism almost lost. Arizona's Barry Goldwater, 71, seemed infirm to many voters but managed to eke out a narrow victory. Some of the key Senate...
Fall of the Mighty. Until this year, the House leaders on both sides of the aisle have had an unspoken agreement that they would not try to unseat each other. But this summer Vander Jagt met with other Republicans and decided to break with tradition by mounting stiff challenges to high-ranking Democrats. It worked...