Word: succeeded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Only two days before the regular meeting of Ford Motor Co.'s board. Chairman Henry Ford II, looking trim and puffing a fat cigar, assured reporters that no new president would be named this month to succeed the unceremoniously sacked Lee Iacocca. Evidently Ford was only trying to confuse the newsmen, because last week the directors indeed named a new president...
...Monday, September 12, 1977, President Bok ended a controversial and confusing 11-month search for a new athletic director at Harvard by naming John P. Reardon Jr. '60 to succeed the retiring Robert B. Watson...
Carter was counting on the "chemistry" of Camp David's setting and intimacy to help make the summit succeed. Much of this would depend on the informal contacts between the parties. The three leaders' aides mixed casually over meals and drinks at Laurel Lodge. Walks through the chestnut, oak and hickory woods provided other opportunities for the kind of personal interaction that Carter hoped would contribute to the peace process...
...taken to the summit a concrete and detailed peace plan calling on Israel to withdraw from the occupied territory in return for what he regards as substantial security arrangements. These proposals, which the Egyptians are billing as "a new peace initiative," have an undisguised dual purpose. They just might succeed in breaking the log jam that has stalled the peace process. But if they are rejected by the Israelis, it could bolster Cairo's argument that Begin is the primary obstacle to peace. Sadat, in fact, is believed to have come to the U.S. convinced that Begin is less...
...Mehta move was the grandest, most publicized stroke of all: his appointment as music director of the New York Philharmonic to succeed avant-garde composer and conductor Pierre Boulez. Not everyone in New York was delighted. Boulez had been a cool, ascetic leader. Mehta, by comparison, had a reputation for more gloss than substance. There was the question of his repertoire, which stressed Tchaikovsky and Strauss to the detriment of the early classics. Finally there was his famous contretemps with the Philharmonic. In 1967 he enraged the New Yorkers by reportedly declaring that his own Los Angeles Philharmonic was better...