Word: successor
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...Christopher, but the 71-year-old has been worn out after keeping a punishing schedule during his four years in the post. Perry took the job in Defense reluctantly when Les Aspin, Clinton's first choice for the post, fell ill. He reportedly will stay in place until a successor is named. It's likely that more departures are in the works. Secretary of Labor Robert Reich, a former Harvard professor, has been commuting from his home in Boston for months. Secretary of Transportation Federico Pena earned demerits for going to bat for ValuJet in the days immediately after...
...President to commit troops. The Administration's China policy is still a work in progress, but we can credit Christopher with injecting realism into U.S. policy with respect to China, although there is still a problem balancing human rights concerns with trade issues. As NATO expansion continues, Christopher's successor will need to execute some elegant diplomacy with the Russians, who continue to protest the alliance's plans...
...graduation of veteran goalie Tripp Tracy is largely responsible for the open parentheses in net. Tracy logged almost all the ice time for Harvard at that position over the last two years, departing the Crimson without leaving behind an experienced successor to his regime...
Like many of the junk-bond wire walkers of the 1980s, Reg Lewis was so obsessed with "doing another Beatrice" that he left the company's core operations adrift. Jean Fugett, a former pro footballer who was Reg's half brother and his handpicked successor, continued the hunt for deals. In the meantime Beatrice was hit by a roiling European recession in 1992 and a rapid erosion of market share, profits and cash. In the middle of this tumult, Fugett hatched a takeover bid for the Baltimore Orioles baseball team. With Beatrice's big shareholders in revolt, Lewis made...
Visotzky would smile. Perhaps more so than Moyers, he is, from personal experience, the Living Conversation's true believer. His initial group has spawned a successor, run by a colleague. He himself has moderated shorter programs with executives and a variety of others. Next week he will remarry: members of the original conversations will attend the wedding. The point, he says, "isn't so much about belief as about whether you're willing to take the risk of study. Study leads to conversation, and conversation leads to community, and that's what we're desperate...