Word: successors
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...other business, the council approved a resolution changing the election process for vacated seats. The amendments to the bylaws will allow the representatives from the district and the district's house committee chairman to appoint a successor until midterm elections are held at the end of the fall semester. Under the previous by-laws, a special election--administered by the council's vice-chair--filled each vacancy as it occurred...
There are several questions which potential deans should have to answer about student life before gaining power. Just as Rosovsky developed the Core Curriculum, his successor will still to deal with the serious objections to that system, and to the recent attempts to subvert its principles by stuffing the Core with every conceivable survey course. Rosovsky has only recently begun to emphasize the quality of teaching--from professors down to teaching fellows--and the next dean should decide from the start how much time he will take from internal Faculty disputes devote to classroom concerns, and to what extent...
Chun continues to pledge that he will step down and that elections will be held in 1988, when his seven-year term expires. But no obvious successor stands in line and Chun is unlikely to let opposition leaders return to the fray. Some Western diplomats suspect, as a result, that he will attempt to stay in office. Reagan seemed to discourage that notion, however, when he praised Chun's plan "for a constitutional transfer of power...
Samuel I. Newhouse bought the Globe-Democrat in 1955 from Edward Lansing Ray, a third-generation owner who hoped that his successor would preserve the paper's combative Republicanism and independence. Although Newhouse bargained away the building and passes to the Post-Dispatch in 1959 and began to pool profits with his ri val two years later, he and his heirs have endorsed local editorial control, and the paper's strident voice has been retained: cartoons depict Communist leaders with hands dripping blood; editorials have termed U.S. District Judge William Hungate, who ordered citywide school desegregation, "Attila...
...Peron's only successor will be the Argentine people, who in the last analysis will be the ones who decide." El Lider uttered those words shortly before he died. In a sense, the Argentine people picked Peron's successor last week. Peronists, Radicals and generals alike, they will now decide whether Raul Alfonsin becomes the first elected President since Juan Peron to serve a full six-year term. -By James Kelly...