Word: number-two
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...Mueller hasn't said who will replace them, but word around the bureau is that he is considering bringing back the concept of William Webster's top management triumvirate - instead of one deputy as chief operating officer, he may name three people to roughly equal number-two slots. The idea is that a single deputy burns out too fast; Louis Freeh went through a slew of them. Also, Webster liked the triumvirate idea because it kept one person from having too much power...
...difference is that there is a natural number-two person at Harvard—the dean of FAS,” says Dale W. Jorgenson, Abbe professor of economics. “It took a little while for the provost to be defined in this context,” he says...
...sequence and other changes could be made with the click of a mouse. This was fortunate, as we changed song order twice at the mastering studio. We demoted "Four More Days" in favor of "Isn't It Strange" for the second slot. The latter, which was clearly a better number-two hitter, describes a delusional and obsessively metaphysical photographer, whose photos show his on-again-off-again love standing behind a closed door, so that "all you see is the door, and nothing more...
...Stanford President Gerhard S. Casper--whom she had helped select as a member of Stanford's presidential search committee--made her his number-two only months after she had received tenure...
Their spin doctors, their surrogates, even their wives - they had everybody expecting a shootout. Instead, anyone who took the time to tune in Thursday night to the traditionally superfluous vice-presidential debate got to see a pair of confident, articulate, serious and dignified number-two men have a gentlemanly discussion - and gentlemen's disagreements - about the right direction for America and the current state of the world...