Word: successor
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...real sprint for technological superiority could take place when operators begin switching over to a third generation of mobile phones around the year 2003. Once again, the Europeans and Japanese have agreed on a technical standard called Wideband Code Division Multiple Access as the successor to GSM, but differences with American manufacturer Qualcomm mean that the U.S. will probably adopt a different standard from Europe's and Asia...
...paragraph about an actor living in Montana (CTRL, Mont) or a starlet claiming she still thinks of herself as ugly (SHIFT, What, me sexy?) for the magazine profiles he writes. But McInerney's characters haven't grown up since Bright Lights: instead of going dancing at the Studio 54 successor Limelight, they go to the still newer club, Chaos; instead of doing cocaine, they do ecstasy. Looking great at 43 and still the party boy of the tabloids, the likable McInerney may be the Dick Clark of literature...
...Rawlins' successor, Beth A. Stewart '00, also applauded Annan's peacekeeping efforts...
Derek Bok purportedly also danced around this issue of citizenship and Harvard at a talk he gave shortly before stepping down as President of the University, saying he would prefer to leave that question to his successor. Why are administrators wary of committing themselves publicly to the principle that Harvard College should aim to make its students good citizens, and if it is not accomplishing that goal, then ought something to change...
Moscow has had no functioning government since Aug. 23, when President Boris Yeltsin dismissed his young Prime Minister Sergei Kiriyenko. His successor, acting Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin, is under heavy pressure from the communist-dominated Duma. Parliamentarians are pushing aggressively for a greater say in running the country. Yelstin had kept them from real power but seemed prepared last weekend to surrender many of his presidential prerogatives. The communists have called for currency controls, re-nationalization and printing more rubles. On the weekend, however, Chernomyrdin went on TV to reassure Russia--and probably the West as well--that there would...