Word: successor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jones' successor, Wilcox, had union problems last year, but unlike his successor, he handled the irate grad students calmly. The union, with a membership of only 600, had recruiting problems, and despite a three-day strike, never attracted the support it received the previous year...
...playing host to state visitors. In short, even by vice-presidential standards, Agnew was keeping a low profile. His object: to keep himself apart from the White House scandals until he could emerge as the unscathed, untarnished presidential candidate of 1976. Or even, perhaps, as the constitutionally designated successor to a departed President Nixon...
...William E. Fornoff, 56, the blustery, barrel-chested former administrative officer of Baltimore County, a post he held under both Agnew and his Democratic successor as county executive, Dale Anderson. In June, Fornoff pleaded guilty to a charge of "impeding the enforcement" of federal tax laws, admitting that he frequently delivered quantities of cash to "a public official." In a strategy similar to that of Judge Sirica after the Watergate trial, Federal Judge Alexander Harvey II has delayed sentencing Fornoff, presumably so that he will cooperate fully with Beall in the investigation...
...those vacant ranks. It is also expected that for the first time Lin will be branded a traitor and right-wing opportunist (the party's worst sin). The congress will then have to adopt a new party constitution, one which no longer names Lin as Mao's successor. The congress must also provide some answers for crucial economic questions, such as how to increase food production, how much to stress industrialization at the expense of agriculture and to what degree China should open itself to dealings with the technology-rich West...
...tente and West Germany's Ostpolitik lost him some of Moscow's backing. He found himself increasingly isolated and plagued by failing health. Two years ago he relinquished his post as party First Secretary, naming his longtime protégé Erich Honecker as his successor. Ulbricht retained the largely ceremonial office of Chief of State. Few Germans, East or West, will mourn his passing. Yet few can deny that Ulbricht alone was the architect of modern East Germany, whose separate existence the West Germans have finally accepted and 89 nations now recognize...