Word: successor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...barbiturates and drowning in a pond in the Rambouillet Forest, southwest of Paris. Boulin was the minister of longest record, having served all three governments of the Fifth Republic in nine different Cabinet posts in 15 years. A respected labor negotiator, he was rumored to have been a likely successor to the unpopular French Prime Minister, Raymond Barre. Initial speculation that Boulin was driven to suicide by published accounts of his alleged misconduct triggered a flurry of attacks on the nation's press, but the minister's own suicide note reviled a judicial system gone wrong...
...ablest political strategists in the country. Rick Stearns, 35, a former assistant district attorney in Massachusetts, who was a strategist for George McGovern in 1972, will be the campaign's delegate hunter, trying to fill the Kennedy slates. Carl Wagner, 34, who was Kirk's successor on Kennedy's Senate staff, will fly around the country, setting up campaign committees. Only a few of the draft-Kennedy volunteers will be taken on. In Kennedy's view, goodwilled, enthusiastic amateurs are fine for leafleting and doorbell ringing, but the running of campaigns must be left to professionals...
...According to the constitution-which foreign observers believe will be honored by the interim government-the 2,583-member National Conference of Unification, which is a kind of electoral college, must meet within 90 days and choose a President. Observers in Seoul very much doubt that Park's successor will be Acting President Choi, a bureaucrat who seems to have neither the stature nor the following...
...Chairman Volcker remains a man on the spot. Lane Kirkland, George Meany's apparent successor as president of the AFL-CIO, has already condemned the Fed's big rate boost as the "wrong move at the wrong time." Economist John Kenneth Galbraith labeled the Federal Reserve's program "an incredibly dubious policy" that will cause a steeper decline but help very little in slowing inflation...
President Calvin Coolidge assured the country that it could "regard the present with satisfaction and anticipate the future with optimism." His successor, Herbert Hoover, said that the U.S. would soon see the end of poverty. Only a few public figures raised doubts. One of them was Financier Paul Warburg, who warned in March 1929 that unless the Federal Reserve acted to curb speculation, there would be a collapse and "a general depression involving the entire country...