Word: succeeded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...candidates who will now compete to succeed Ronald Reagan (Democrat Edmund G. Brown Jr., 36, and Republican Houston Flournoy, 44) both have the advantage of being atypical politicians in an atypical year. Youthful and good-looking, they have enough experience in lesser offices to appear knowledgeable but are sufficiently offbeat to seem fresh...
...fitting that Putnam should succeed Bennett as treasurer, in light of his original role in the move to wrest power from Bennett, it is ironic that Cabot should succeed Bennett as the new portfolio manager: Cabot's uncle was Paul C. Cabot '21, former Harvard treasurer and co-founder of State Street Management and Research and Bennett's mentor. It was Cabot senior who trained Bennett and hand-picked him as his successor at State Street and Harvard. But the younger Cabot has already proven himself to also be wary of the financial management style his uncle and Bennett brought...
...succeed, St. Clair will have to hang tough, as they say--hunker down, stonewall. Delay. Divert. Deny. It will not be easy, and it will certainly take longer than the "several weeks" he wishfully predicts...
...State Treasurer Bob Straub, 54, unexpectedly nosed out both liberal State Senator Betty Roberts and Incumbent Treasurer James Redden, who had broad support from organized labor and the press. On the Republican side, voters rejected Clay Myers, the secretary of state whom Governor Tom McCall had strongly backed to succeed him. Instead, they chose conservative State Senator Victor Atiyeh. Finally, voters of both parties joined to defeat five of six statewide ballot measures, including a bond issue for water projects, proposals to use some gasoline-tax funds for mass transit, and a school-tax measure that would have shifted some...
...outcome of all this preparation is a form of cost-benefit analysis, where successive rebuttal opportunities help weed out poorly - reasoned and insufficiently-documented arguments. Teams succeed or fail on their ability to produce and defend concrete and empirically demonstrable advantages and disadvantages for particular proposals...