Word: successional
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(4 of 10) making the quick succession of monologues from three of her movies look easy. She tells the audience that she has always worked from the outside in, discovering how a character dresses and moves and only then who the character is. But in In the Movies, the plaintive...
Some of the best journalism in America is produced by newspapers that are too small ever to qualify for a ten best list but that vigorously pursue issues in their communities. These dailies and weeklies are the traditional training ground for big-city journalists. The best of them, moreover, hold...
Gorbachev, trained in both agriculture and law, was not elected a voting member of the Politburo until 1980. During Andropov's brief time in power, Gorbachev was put in charge of a high-level committee, studying ways to improve the economy. Unusually well traveled for a Soviet leader, he...
The White House last week toyed with the idea of finding a temporary fillin, then discovered that it could not bypass the department's internal succession rules but must go through confirmation hearings for a permanent replacement. So unless Meese decides to step aside or Smith agrees not to...
* The Presidential Succession Act of 1947, not the Constitution, specifies that after the Vice President, the presidency passes to the Speaker of the House, then to the president pro tempore of the Senate, then to the Secretary of State, then down through the Cabinet. It was according to this law...