Word: successor
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Some hands in Washington suspect that Burns has encouraged the argument with the White House to rally businessmen behind him, thereby improving his chances for reappointment, or at least making it more likely that his successor will not be too liberal. Administration aides say Carter has not even begun to consider whether to keep Burns. That is January's decision, they say, not November's. But postponement of a decision on Burns, just like the delay on the tax package, unsettles the business community and adds to the forces that are lessening chances for a robust economy...
...better informed now and probably would not stand for such mass terror. Then, the poet Anna Akhmatova wrote: "The stars of death stood over us./ And Russia, guiltless, be loved, writhed/ under the crunch of bloodstained boots,/ under the wheels of Black Marias." Life under Lenin's current successor has relaxed, grown somewhat less bleak, but there still seems no prospect that the mythology will be fulfilled: that, in the fullness of time, the state will begin to wither away and leave only the classless, abundant workers' paradise. On the contrary, the stolid bureaucracy expands, reduplicating itself...
...liberal, the school board changed in 1975 when the balance swung, 5 to 2, in favor of the conservatives. The new majority promptly forced Superintendent Ludwig to resign. In an election this fall, the voters turned out the last progressive on the board, which must now find a permanent successor to Ludwig. Several candidates are under consideration?and are being examined closely to see if they will hew to the back-to-basics line. The board has also decreed that a "comprehensive testing program" be introduced to test basic skills...
Appeals to common sense are also frequent, but they come across in a way the kids can understand. Jim Blaikie, DeJoinville's successor, says he tells those with long records that they remind him of the carpenter who constantly cuts off his finger. Both, he contends, are in the wrong business. "When a guy in here tells them it's a dead end, that's got to have an effect," says Blaikie, who served as treasurer of the Massachusetts McGovern campaign before his conviction and now spends a good deal of his time--when he doesn't have to make...
...then choose one of them to be the primate. In 1965 a U.S.-born candidate got the most votes, but failed to gain the necessary two-thirds majority, and the predominantly elderly, Russian-born bishops turned instead to runner-up Ireney, a bishop in New England. In choosing a successor to Ireney, now 85 and ailing, the delegates in Montreal nearly gave a first-ballot victory to Hartford, Conn.'s, popular Bishop Dmitri, a Texas-born, former Baptist who converted to Orthodoxy as a teenager. But the bishops instead chose Theodosius. He comes from an Orthodox family in the church...