Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Joseph Kraft condemned the trip as the "sleazy act" of a "contemptible man ... now betraying the man who pardoned him." Nixon's journey, Kraft predicted, "can only foster a deadlock between Ford and Reagan, which will serve to promote the candidacy of the man he really wanted to succeed him as President, John Connally...
...some ways, it is a key test. If the plant can produce gas at $3.20 per million cu. ft. when it starts operating in 1979, it will succeed in at least matching the economics of existing-and readily marketable-synthetic gases such as those made from naphtha. Becoming a feedstock for "syngas" would open a major new potential for coal, especially the now stymied high-sulfur varieties. The Federal Government would benefit, too, since the plant's success would be an early vindication of its insistence that the nation can achieve relative energy independence...
...there are other reasons for avoiding intervention. Covert CIA operations would not at this point be acceptable to U.S. allies in Europe. CIA intervention would certainly alienate most pro-western forces in Italy, leaving the U.S. with few allies. Finally, there is no right-wing military establishment which could succeed a possible Communist government. Neo-fascism is a possibility, but only at the cost of civil war. Due to all their governmental instability and endless political crises, post-war Italian politics has given the nation a strong pluralistic tradition, and a great respect for civil liberties...
...England, and for the next few months spent days seeking out his demigod and nights sleeping on park benches and in public toilets. Today, wherever Rostropovich plays, tickets sell out within hours. Only one week after he announced his decision to defect, the National Symphony chose Rostropovich to succeed their outgoing musical director and conductor...
...referred to "the cascading waves of criticism and outright attack that Lockheed and its management have been subjected to" and called for "a new standard of international business conduct." Haughton had been scheduled to retire on his 65th birthday in September, but Kotchian, 61, might have been expected to succeed...