Word: successor
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Davis is presently director of the University's Office of Budgets, responsible for supervising the University's $230 million annual budget. No mention of his successor in the Office of Budgets has been made...
Faced with all these problems, Klassen's successor as Postmaster General, Benjamin Franklin Bailar, a former vice president for international relations at American Can Co., gives the promise of providing more efficient administration. He is young (41), analytical and decisive. Even if the Postal Service had had good management from the start, however, it would still be in deep trouble today...
Both the hyperbole and the hypersensitivity of that statement are typical of Mrs. Gandhi, who came to power in 1966 after the sudden death of her father's successor as Prime Minister, Lai Bahadur Shastri. In choosing Mrs. Gandhi, who had served briefly as Minister of Information and Broadcasting under Shastri, the ruling bosses of the Congress Party apparently hoped to acquire a politically popular but compliant Prime Minister...
...Jamieson's successor as chair man and chief executive officer will be Exxon's current president, Clifton Garvin, 53, a forceful if taciturn Virginia-born engineer who rose through the corporate ranks via the company's burgeoning chemical operations. The new president: Howard C. Kauffmann, 52, a senior vice president (one of five), who has been running Exxon's operations in Europe and Latin America for most of the past ten years. One Exxon executive, who knows them both, describes them as "cast in the same mold-hard businessmen, not extraverted, used to tough decisions." More...
...during the late 1960s. But times change, and the Muslims' autocratic messiah, Elijah Muhammad, adopted a softer line before his death in February at 77. Last week, at a mass rally of 12,000 of the faithful at Chicago's McCormick Place, Elijah's son and successor, Wallace D. Muhammad, made it official: the race-hatred theme is being shelved. Whites will even be permitted to join the sect, though no rush of recruits is expected. Said Wallace: "We have caught hell from the white man for 400 years, but we have grown to where...