Word: successors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Under Article 67 of West Germany's constitutional Basic Law, a simple majority of deputies in the 497-seat Bundestag can remove the Chancellor provided that they "constructively" designate a successor. As Christian Democratic leader in 1972, Rainer Barzel tried and failed to use the provision to topple Social Democratic Chancellor Willy Brandt...
Paul M. Doty '50, an arms control expert and member of the Biochemistry Department, said that the Soviet scientists and officials he met with earlier this month had predicted few advances in nuclear arms reduction until the Moscow government chooses a successor for ailing Soviet President Leonid I. Brezhnev...
...Outside of the formal discussions, I met with friends and found that the Soviets are very glum," Doty said this week. "They already have an accumulation of many problems; plus, they can't do much about them until a successor to Brezhnev comes on the stage...
...positively eerie. "Soldier of Love" might very well be a track the Fab Four couldn't find room for on Beatles '65. "The Usual Thing" sounds strikingly like the Everly Brothers. But Crenshaw has done more than just successfully emulate his illustrious forebears. Rather, he is their logical successor, the latest link in an exquisite chain that began with Holly, hooked around Liverpool, latched onto California and then began to rust...
Paley's move signaled the final transfer of power to his hand-chosen successor, CBS President Thomas Wyman, 52. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Amherst College, Wyman joined the company in June 1980 after holding top positions at Polaroid, Green Giant and Pillsbury...