Word: successional
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That doesn't mean Karmazin will necessarily get Redstone's job down the line. "This was not a decision on succession," Redstone says, making it clear that with a majority of Viacom's voting stock and a personal stake in the company worth $9.3 billion, he remains firmly in charge...
During the middle of the 1998 campaign, Harvard seemed to hit its stride, winning five contests in a row. But the streak ended when the Crimson fell to No. 6 Boston College and No. 4 Princeton in succession.
Schroeder has attempted to follow in the footsteps of Clinton and Britain's Tony Blair by combining traditional liberal and social democratic concerns with strict fiscal discipline. But the political center in Germany is well to the left of its American equivalent - even conservative governments have traditionally maintained a level...
A nation can abolish monarchy, as America did with zest in 1776. But it cannot so easily abolish the dynastic impulse. The American fascination with royalty shows itself most flagrantly in our obsession with the Kennedys, but familial succession permeates American political life. Look no further than the glamour races...
Sonia, however, is no pioneer of spousal succession. Corazon Aquino and Violeta Chamorro, both widows of assassinated opposition leaders, became Presidents, respectively, of the Philippines and Nicaragua. They did not, however, get there by default. They ascended by courageously making themselves the rallying point of a revolution. The one who...