Word: ouster
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That was clearly shown, Shawcross writes, by the five years of destruction that followed Sihanouk's ouster, a destruction that Shawcross condemns as an excessive attempt to display U.S. strength in the area...
...Washington, U.S. officials welcomed the ouster of Amin and said the United States would move quickly to establish a normal relationship with the new government...
...abrupt ouster of Geyelin (pronounced Jay-lin) came as a stunning surprise to him and nearly everyone else at the Post, where intramural politics is followed more avidly than the paler version practiced on Capitol Hill. As was the case with almost every top-level personnel change at the paper in recent years, there was immediate speculation that Executive Editor Ben Bradlee had "got him." The New York Times reported differences in "management policies" between Bradlee and Geyelin. Other handicappers noted that Geyelin's star may have faded when his chief patron, Post Chairman Katharine Graham, 61, stepped down...
...food service director preferred culinary to political art, however, and ordered him to hold the garnishes. When Bates responded by writing HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MARX in whipped cream on a cake, he was fired. He has appealed his ouster, and the issue is now before the college president. The wilted salads have mushroomed, he says, into a principle: "Where you have no employer-employee structure to deal with firings, there's no possibility of any community response." Or, more simply, they won't lettuce have...
...that will not honor their legally binding contracts. Said Clifton Garvin Jr., chairman of Exxon: "It is our belief that we should not buy oil at present high spot market prices." Others do not seem so confident. Last week Royal Dutch/Shell, a major customer of Iranian crude before the ouster of the Shah, was back in the loading queue for a new supertanker cargo at an undisclosed price...