Word: successor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Robert Massey abruptly resigned as president and CEO of CompuServe. In a written statement from H&R Block, which owns some 80 percent of the online service, Block CEO Frank Salizzoni said that Massey left to pursue other interests, and said he will assume Massey?s responsibilities until a successor is found. Block discouraged speculation that Massey's departure was related to this Thursday?s release of CompuServe?s third quarter financial results, which are expected to be grim. On the service's website, Massey notes that 1996 was a trying time for CompuServe shareholders, who have watched the company...
...simply for three months but for the almost four years left in Yeltsin's term. That might give the stodgy PM time to develop into a marketable candidate. A second idea floating around parliament would involve scrapping an interim general election and allowing a special assembly to choose a successor. Rivals Chernomyrdin and Communist Party leader Gennadi Zyuganov each believe it could work in his favor. A third proposal, aired by Vyacheslav Kostikov, Yeltsin's former press secretary, would delegate part of the President's powers to a council of several senior advisers until the election...
...adept at persuading elderly members to leave American Atheists their last bequests. In 1986, when she moved the organization into its current red brick headquarters, she claimed to have paid in cash the full cost of $1 million-plus. Jon Murray, her second son and by then her titular successor, told Wright, who later profiled her in his book Saints and Sinners, "We're accustomed to good food...All of us have nice clothes. My suits cost a minimum of five, six hundred dollars...We have a nice house in Northwest Hills, nice automobiles...We've been around the world...
...early 1990s, the center had ceased to hold. Part of the problem was Jon. David Travis, an editorial, financial and clerical worker for the organization for three years, ending in August 1995, reports that Madalyn's son, whom she had pressed on her fellow board members as her successor, didn't "even know when to be polite." Says Kerns: "He had no special training, nor a great number of social skills, as well as a speech impediment. He was at an extreme disadvantage, and he was aware that he'd been put in a position beyond his abilities to handle...
Madalyn Murray O'Hair is no longer an essential national figure--either to the public at large or to America's closeted or activist atheists, most of whom long ago shifted their allegiance to her successor organizations. But her absence leaves what the theologically inclined might call a Madalyn-shaped hole at a building in Austin. There is an air of melancholy these days about the American Atheists general headquarters on a stretch of Cameron Road. Instead of a business name (the building is unmarked), the large sign above the fenced-in parking lot reads FOR SALE. American Atheists' officers...