Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...minimum, though, Shultz has freed U.S. policy from the aggressively nationalistic line pursued by his predecessor John Connally. Connally adamantly refused to pledge that the U.S. would make the dollar convertible again -that is, buy back new dollars that other nations acquire in dealings with the U.S. and wish to exchange for gold, S.D.R.s or other assets. Shultz confided to reporters last week that his speech-writers tried several circumlocutions to hint-without quite saying it-that the U.S. would restore convertibility once its international payments came back into balance. Instead, the Secretary decided simply to make the flat promise...
Beginning the day after Learson steps down, IBM will require its 37 other top officers to retire at 60. The new age limit will apply to Learson's predecessor, Thomas J. Watson Jr., who will turn 60 on Jan. 8, 1974. Chief executive of IBM for 15 years, Watson gave up that title last year after a heart attack but remained a member of the company's board and its top decision-making body, the Corporate Office. IBM's present retirement age of 65 will continue to cover the remainder of its 265,493 employees, but some...
...golf, do some more sailing, travel, and spend more time with my family. I've had 37 years of fun working with IBM. My wife and I now want to have some fun loafing." Spectacled and softspoken, Cary offers a noticeable contrast to his imposing and forceful predecessor. But Cary is not expected to introduce any alterations to IBM management style. Says a former IBM financial executive: "At IBM, the players may come and go, but the play remains the same...
...coming weeks--and indeed for the coming year--Norway may be, in effect, leaderless. Certainly the legitimacy of those in leadership positions will be questioned. If the anti-Marketeers actually form a Government (resigning Prime Minister Brattell will ask that his Center Party predecessor, Mr. Borten, make the attempt), that Government will represent considerably less than one-third of the Parliament. But no other alternative seems possible if neither Labor nor the Conservatives are prepared to refute their prereferendum positions and pledges...
Higginson acknowledges that he has a tough act to follow, but he is not overawed by the success that Gladstone amassed, nor is he concerned with the inevitable comparisons that will be made between him and his predecessor...