Word: heirs
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MAFIKENG, South Africa: Nelson Mandela formally handed over control of his party Wednesday to his designated heir, Thabo Mbeki, amidst media reports that the African National Congress was taking a harder line towards South Africa's privileged white minority. But Mbeki's talk of "completing the revolution" and "continuing the struggle" should be read less as signaling any intention of attacking domestic and foreign business interests - which he sees as all-important components of the country's efforts to generate economic growth - than as the opening volleys of the party's 1999 election campaign...
...simple solution to the Soviet first-strike threat--the single-warhead Midgetman missile. He crammed his mind with facts about computers and technology, coining the term information superhighway way back in 1979. And so meticulous were Gore's preparations for his 1996 debate with Jack Kemp, the putative heir to Ronald Reagan's Great Communicator throne, that the Vice President demanded his practice room be cooled to the precise temperature of the debate hall--and made sure his aides factored in the audience's effect on the ambient temperature. After four climate-controlled mock debates, he went out and demolished...
...critics of Perez Balladares, a beefy, combative millionaire businessman known as Toro, or Bull, say his actions are out of step with his words. Heir to the helm of the Revolutionary Democratic Party, once in the grip of Noriega, Perez Balladares has appointed Noriega's former Foreign Minister, Jorge Ritter, as his Minister for Canal Affairs and chairman of the new 11-member Panama Canal Authority, the agency that will run the facility after 2000. In addition, the President has invited a storm of criticism by naming a passel of relatives and political cronies to the Canal Authority board. They...
Edward Debartolo Jr., the heir to a shopping-center fortune who built his own dynasty with the San Francisco 49ers, has never been the sort of mogul to pride himself on wearing tattered flannel or flying coach. A man with a taste for brandy at $180 a shot, DeBartolo, 51, is known for sparing no cost when it comes to getting exactly what he wants. How to turn a losing team into one of the winningest in the NFL? Recruit the best players, whatever the price. How to secure their devotion to the team? Lavish them with trips to Hawaii...
Bigness was, of course, an attraction of the actual ship. In the film, the ship company's boss says, "I wanted to convey sheer size." Cameron could be his spiritual heir. The man who made The Terminator for $6 million has become the high priest of Hollywood bloat. He is also the movies' mad toymaster: he keeps falling in love with an imposing machine (a cyborg, an alien, a submarine, a Harrier jet, an ocean liner) that he then spends great amounts of time and energy destroying...