Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...like a father with a child, and I want it to succeed when I'm gone...
...home before his departure, he has moved sharply against alleged opponents and buttressed his regime with a succession plan that already bears the marks of a dynasty. At his prodding, the Philippine legislature last week approved a law clarifying constitutional provisions for a 15-member Executive Committee that would succeed him in the event of his death or disability. Last month Marcos appointed his wife to a spot on the new Executive Committee, thus entrenching her as the most likely person to dominate it and-though he denies it-perhaps even to emerge as President. Yet Marcos reinforced speculation about...
...have always denied that your wife would succeed you, yet she was named to the Executive Committee last month. How do you explain that...
...endorsement of even one woman for high state office suggests the great progress of the politically weaker sex, both in the Commonwealth and the nation. Until the 1970s, the few female politicians who sought office often ran only as legacies for spouses who were constitutionally ineligible to succeed themselves, or newly dead. But more and more women are running in their own right, and millions more are participating in other ways...
...Chicago's Catholics that is plenty. Observes Lay Activist John McDermott, "He's coming into the wake of a disaster, and there is so much good will and hope that he will succeed that he has a lot going for him." Mayor Jane Byrne immediately pronounced, "He is very definitely going to be a people's archbishop...