Word: ouster
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Karmazin and Redstone are kindred spirits, says Frank Biondi, who was Redstone's No. 2 before a controversial ouster in 1996 and who knows Karmazin. "They're both devoted to the business--it's about 99% of their lives. They're just going to have to work out the yins and yangs." Says Viacom Entertainment Group chairman Jonathan Dolgen: "They share the same basic work ethic, which is: There are only seven workdays in the week...
...that killed more than 250 apartment dwellers in a single week have created a groundswell of calls for action among the nation?s politicians ?- and Friday?s call by Yeltsin loyalist and Federation Council speaker Yegor Stroyev for the president to step down signals the mounting clamor for his ouster...
...earning 30 merit badges, rising to the level of eagle scout before becoming an assistant scoutmaster. But then Scout officials saw a photo in a local New Jersey paper that identified Dale as a leader of the Lesbian/Gay Alliance at Rutgers University. The Scouts promptly expelled him. Dale's ouster, the court declared, was "based on little more than prejudice"; he had "never used his leadership position or membership [in the Scouts] to promote homosexuality, or any message inconsistent with Boy Scouts' policies" of being "morally straight" and "clean." The New Jersey court rejected the argument that the Boy Scouts...
...second act has been a deluge of litigation. Following his ouster, Drabinsky was sued in Canada by Livent's new managers, including Furman and Hollywood honcho Michael Ovitz, who had taken control of the company in June. Then came a criminal indictment in U.S. federal court and fraud charges by the Securities and Exchange Commission, alleging that Drabinsky fiddled with the books to disguise Livent's precarious financial condition. He's been accused of hiding expenses, of misleading auditors and devising a kickback scheme that funneled more than $5 million to him and his longtime partner Myron Gottlieb...
Slobodan Milosevic?s opponents may have him on the ropes, but Serbia?s wily ruler is about to repeat his signature "rope-a-dope" trick ? creating a crisis, and then presenting himself as the only solution. As opposition street rallies demanding his ouster grow bolder, Milosevic launched his counterpunching strategy Thursday in the southern Serbian town of Prokuplje. Milosevic?s Socialist Party scheduled a rally of his supporters there at the same time ? and in the same place ? as an opposition rally. Although only a few dozen Milosevic supporters showed up to confront the 4,000 opposition protestors, the move...