Word: unseat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...turmoil at HHS is not the only problem Bush will face as he tries to satisfy both sides of the abortion debate. Last week the President spent a day campaigning for two pro-choice Republicans, Congresswomen Claudine Schneider of Rhode Island, who hopes to unseat Senator Claiborne Pell, and Lynn Martin of Illinois, who plans to run for the Senate. Then, as he flew back to Washington, he vetoed the budget bill for the District of Columbia because it contained a provision that would use city funds to pay for abortions for poor women. It was Bush's fourth abortion...
Josh Preven plays Hoss, the paranoid lead. Hoss is a man near the top--afraid of those climbing up from behind and determined to unseat those above him. Preven is convincing and forceful as he handles lines that could all too easily have become overacted in the hands of someone less skilled...
...gypsy. Nixon had roots in the same soil that produced the sagebrush rebellion. Morris also reconstructs the network of Nixon's early financial backers, including some of the millionaires who would later sponsor Reagan. After only six years in Congress, Nixon connected with a national following. Ultimately, it would unseat the mandarins who created the Eisenhower candidacy, those Eastern stalwarts who chose Nixon for the 1952 ticket because they needed the new sect's strength...
...Trump originally called Television City, the network decided to stay in Rockefeller Center. Mayor Ed Koch rejected Trump's demands for a 20-year tax abatement, mocking the builder as "piggy, piggy, piggy." Trump in turn called Koch "incompetent" and "a moron," and threatens to help anyone who can unseat him in next fall's election. Citizens' groups on the West Side mounted major opposition, charging that the project would cast a deep shadow over a large area...
According to political observers it's almost impossible to defeat a Kennedy in an election. But Joseph Malone '78 and Glenn Fiscus are shunning conventional wisdom in their attempts to do what many consider impossible--unseat an incumbent Kennedy in Massachusetts...