Word: successor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Besides, if not Suharto, who? "The successor that Suharto himself has chosen has no credibility with the army," says Dowell. "And he's been very careful to keep the factions in the military squabbling, so that he's the only figure they can all agree on." The president turns 77 next month; Dowell points out he may soon die, or decide to retire. But after 30 years of kinglike reign, Suharto seems sure to depart on his own terms...
...other cities. "The student protests are turning out to be much more durable than anyone expected," says Dowell. "There seems to be a web of resistance building up there which hasn't really existed before." Bad news for the aging Suharto, and, in the absence of an obvious successor, it may also bring Indonesia another year of living dangerously...
...pair of broken eyeglasses repaired. It was a revelation; there would never be money in philosophy, he reasoned, so he promptly quit school to take a job in electronics. Eight years later, he switched to banking and became a rising star, first at Philadelphia National Bank, then at its successor, CoreStates Financial. Colleagues describe him as hot tempered and strong willed, but they say his work was phenomenal. And so it was that although Shah is no Cary Grant, the boy who loved American movies would come to live the very life of society depicted in The Philadelphia Story...
...someone friendlier to Clinton, namely the 49-year-old Merletti. A 23-year veteran of the service, Merletti was troubled: Starr was chasing a conspiracy theory and had sent FBI agents to Bowron's house to try to prove it. Bowron, who had recommended Merletti as a possible successor, said that he informed Starr's investigators that his departure was voluntary and that he strongly supported the protective privilege for agents. Says Bowron: "It's not a new issue with the Secret Service...
...earnestness, they exhibit their high-tech gizmo in a small, unadorned office in a brick, Industrial Age building in South Boston topped with Hollywood-style letters spelling out WORLD SHAVING HEADQUARTERS. John Terry, the elderly, thick-glassed British engineer whose team came up with the design for the successor to the twin-track Sensor, cradles the prototype between his thumb and forefinger as if it were a Honus Wagner. Terry, who has two degrees in metallurgy, talks about his invention as if it were the fax machine...