Word: heir
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...court decision in 1949 threatened to expose the trust to further tax liability if any chance existed that the money could return to Kate Clark. As a result, she amended the terms to name Harvard the recipient of the trust money if no other heir survived...
...series of unlikely deaths left the trust without such an heir. Avery Clark died in 1957, his only child died in 1966 and his widow died in 2000 without having remarried...
Both sides agree that Kate Clark made the change and named Harvard as a potential heir in order to avoid paying extra taxes...
Between harried campaign stops in Colorado last Friday, Teresa Heinz Kerry and Elizabeth Edwards sat down and spoke with TIME's Karen Tumulty for nearly an hour. Heinz Kerry grew up in Africa, married a Senator who was also heir to the Heinz-condiment fortune, then saw her life shattered when he died in a 1991 plane crash. Her second marriage, in 1995, was to another Senator named John--this one aiming for the White House. Edwards, a Navy brat, is an accomplished bankruptcy lawyer who married her law school classmate before he made millions dazzling juries across North Carolina...
...days the scientific grapevine had been buzzing with the news that Stephen Hawking, the brilliant physicist whose disease has put him in a wheelchair, heir to the revered Cambridge professorship once held by Isaac Newton, would be making a big announcement at a conference in Dublin, Ireland. Sure enough, last week before an array of TV cameras and hundreds of colleagues at the ordinarily obscure International Conference of General Relativity and Gravitation, Hawking declared that he had solved what he called "a major problem in theoretical physics." Black holes, he said, do not forever annihilate all traces of what falls...