Word: succeeded
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...close to retirement. Brabeck technically reported to the chief operating officer, who was widely expected to become the new CEO. Maucher asked Brabeck bluntly, "What is it you truly want?" Brabeck's reply: "The chair you're sitting in." Several months later, Maucher announced that Brabeck would succeed...
...disclosure and conservative accounting" and notes that it has no unconsolidated debt. Pfizer's announcement last week that it will merge with Pharmacia sent several drugmakers looking for partners. But while Vasella doesn't rule out an acquisition, his firm is considered one of the few strong enough to succeed on their...
...poignant scene in which Prospero breaks his staff and drowns his book in the sea, thus relinquishing the magical powers that have made him the ruler of the island. Prospero, who will return to Milan to reclaim power, is too much a scholar and a mystic to really succeed in earthly politics. He will never be more at home than he has been on his island. So why does he give...
...protect the body against HIV. In September, however, the results were announced, and this vaccine too had failed. Its developer, Merck, has now released an analysis of the trial, and while the vaccine performed as poorly as reported, the reasons it failed provide insight into what might make it succeed next time...
...Zuma, 65, is the front runner to succeed Thabo Mbeki as President of South Africa. Mbeki has two years left in his second term--the constitution bars him from a third. In December, Zuma will try to replace him as president of the African National Congress (ANC), which has dominated politics since, under Nelson Mandela, it was instrumental in ending apartheid in 1994. If Zuma wins the party presidency at the ANC conference in the northern city of Polokwane, he is all but assured of elevation to South Africa's highest office in 2009. The only man who could beat...