Word: successor
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...nation within a nation, radical communalists who threatened the economic order and polygamists out to destroy the American family. Attacked in print, and physically by mobs, some 30,000 were forced to flee their dream city of Nauvoo, Ill., in 1846. Led by their assassinated founder's successor, they set out on a thousand-mile trek westward derided by nonbelievers as being as absurd as their faith...
Walter's departure leaves AT&T in the hands of CEO Robert Allen, whose tortured leadership of Ma Bell ignited the search for a successor. His nine-year tenure has been marked by some seemingly desperate attempts to expand beyond telephones and phone service, including the failed $6 billion acquisition of computer maker NCR Corp., the pricey buyout of McCaw Cellular ($13 billion) and some high-profile product failures. NCR, which lost billions, was spun off in last year's "trivestiture." Another castaway, the manufacturing arm now called Lucent Technologies, has been on a tear since leaving Allen's hold...
...unusual for a CEO to want to stick around or make life miserable for a named successor. Yet, says Robert Kavner, another top executive who left AT&T, "Bob is not a punitive person; he's not egocentric. This is about something of substance...
...having twice demonstrated his inability to groom a successor, Allen is now part of the problem. "Bob Allen is a caretaker when the company needs a visionary," says Scott Cleland of the Legg Mason Precursor Group. "The company has lost a year and a half in setting the direction for the next millennium...
...Friday, Ohio State officials established a presidential search committee to select Gee's successor...