Word: successor
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Last week, though, Carter decided that, yes, he could drop Burns and life would go on pretty much as usual. In a move that surprised official Washington and caught Burns off guard while he was on vacation in Florida, the President picked as Burns' successor a man whose name had never come up in public speculation: G. (for George) William Miller, 52, chairman and chief executive of Textron Inc., one of the nation's first and most successful corporate conglomerates...
...Burns succeeded William McChesney Martin in 1970 as head of the Federal Reserve Board, he had a tough act to follow. After 19 years in the job. Martin had made his name synonymous with sound money management. When Burns himself steps down at the end of this month, his successor, G. William Miller, will find Burns' show quite as difficult to top. As chairman of the Reserve, Arthur Burns was final arbiter of the nation's money supply through eight of the most tumultuous years in economic history-years marred alternately, or sometimes simultaneously, by double-digit inflation...
...upholstery by tacking the material over foam and onto the frame. The staple gun can also be used for insulating walls; indeed, it is almost possible to build a house with one of these $30 widgets, points out Zakas, who is writing a book on the uses of this successor to the paper clip: it is tentatively titled Staple! Staple...
...install many of the fixtures of welfare-state-ism in Australia, notably its first national health service. As soon as Labor's massive defeat became obvious, Whitlam announced that he would step down as party leader, thus leaving his former treasurer, Bill Hayden, 44, as his most likely successor. By contrast, the results were a minor victory for the Democrats' Don Chipp, 52, a Liberal renegade whose centrist views and unabashed idealism apparently struck a welcome chord among voters. Said he: "We offer an alternative to the politics of cynicism, character assassination and misleading statistics...
William Bundy, chairman of the Yale search committee, said yesterday he hopes the corporation will reveal the name of Kingman Brewster's successor "before the end of the week...