Word: unseats
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...Kandahar, for example, the U.S. chose former governor Gul Agha Sherzai as the warlord to help them unseat the Taliban. Sherzai is back in power, now, but much of the local resentment bred by the corruption and lawlessness of his first term in office persists. U.S. support for Sherzai has alienated some local commanders with no loyalty to the either the Taliban or al-Qaeda. And their resentment is being exploited by some long-standing U.S. enemies. The forces of the local Ittehad e-Islami faction, for example, appear to have made common cause with the Hizb e-Islami...
...MICHAEL DELL In 1984 he declared his intention to unseat IBM as the world's leading computer maker. It sounded outlandish at the time, but in pursuit of that goal DELL COMPUTER has revolutionized its industry. It bypasses retailers by selling made-to-order computers directly to consumers at low prices, and profits from hyperefficient, just-in-time inventory management. Those innovations helped make Dell the No. 1 computer seller in the world this year. Michael Dell, 36, is raising his sights from PCs to the powerful servers and storage devices that serve businesses. In Dell's cross hairs...
...hand, Washington is concerned to accommodate the interests of Pakistan's General Musharraf, who took a massive political risk in supporting the U.S. war effort. On the other, it can't afford to alienate the Northern Alliance forces that have served as its infantry in the war to unseat the Taliban. And there are clearly volatile conflicts both within the Alliance and among the anti-Taliban Pashtun warlords in the south...
...weeks preceding the election, pundits speculated that challenger candidate E. Denise Simmons, who had previously served on the School Committee, would take Reeves’ black voting base and unseat him, while her absence from the School Committee race would leave that body without a black member...
...sense that members of Afghanistan?s Northern Alliance are anti-Taliban, they are friends of the United States. This ragtag group of "freedom fighters" has fought unsuccessfully for five years to unseat the Taliban regime - and many observers hope the U.S.-led strikes against the Taliban will finally allow members of the Northern Alliance to take up active roles in Afghanistan?s government...