Word: heir
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...leadership, confessing he was one of those "who all their lives prepare to fulfill missions." Change, he said, should "take ... into account the feelings, hopes, and frustrations being expressed" by a fearful French nation that requires "policies more proactive, bolder and more socially aware." Though never explicitly naming himself heir apparent to Raffarin, de Villepin's ambitions seemed obvious when he indicated his comments had been cleared by his mentor President Jacques Chirac. The spat comes at an awkward time for the government. Chirac has been unable to halt the advance of the no campaign ahead...
When family conflict erupts in murder, bereaved survivors usually say the outburst was unforeseeable, unimaginable. That is particularly true when the killer is, like Plastics Heir Antony Baekeland, an attractive and intelligent young man whose literary promise has been asserted by notables like Novelist James Jones. But when Tony Baekeland murdered his mother, few people in the family's circle were altogether surprised. Some of them suggested that Barbara Baekeland, a social-climbing former model who gave her son smother love but no stability, had been courting her own death. Said Attorney Samuel Shaw: "That's a real question...
...main worry was not so much Shahnawaz's funeral as the anticipated return of the former Prime Minister's daughter Benazir, 32, and the emotional welcome she was expected to receive. Benazir, who was educated at Harvard and Oxford, is her father's political heir and the present leader of the P.P.P. After her release from imprisonment and house arrest in 1984, Benazir moved to London and has led the party from exile. Although the P.P.P. has been banned for the past eight years, it is still the most popular party in Pakistan. It is also the dominant member...
...Safekeeping, a witty, Wodehousian gavotte from the confines of an English boys' school to the streets of Harlem, with several beguiling stops between, Mcdonald records the travails of a small boy, heir to a dukedom, who is orphaned during the London blitz and sent off to the uncertain care of a sodden New York City tabloid reporter. Within weeks the boy becomes the target of a Mafia hit man, thereby allowing the author to mix sociology and satire, goofy narrative and authentic terror...
...greater flexibility and future expansion. The company will be split into four parts: autos, finance, technology and aerospace. An umbrella organization, headed by Iacocca, will oversee all operations and is expected to be set up as a holding company based in Manhattan. Chrysler Vice Chairman Gerald Greenwald, Iacocca's heir apparent, will become chairman of the automobile wing...