Word: successors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have placed special emphasis recently on arrangements for choosing your successor. Why the urgency at this particular time...
...taxes and a sharp cutback in government spending. While helping Mexico's credit rating, these steps would also boost unemployment. López Portillo gave no specifics of a new austerity program in his speech. Making unpleasant economic choices will soon be the job of his hand-picked successor, Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado, who will take office in December...
...dollars to go on a yearly trip. "We are trapped. It is against the working people who save their money for some simple pleasures." The anger has been aimed largely at President López Portillo, who on Dec. 1 will turn power over to his hand-picked successor, Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado, who won 74% of the vote in last month's presidential election...
Much of Moi's trouble may be of his own making. After he was elected in 1979 as the successor to Kenya's legendary founding father Jomo Kenyatta, the new President was praised by observers for his relatively liberal approach to politics. But in the past six months Moi has shown an increasingly authoritarian bent. He has ordered the detention, without charges, of seven people, including four Nairobi University lecturers, presumably for expressing reservations about his rule, and the lawyer who took up their case. In June, after the country's most prominent left-wing tribal leader...
Last week, however, President Reagan persuaded an economist with both stature and credibility to come on board as Weidenbaum's successor. His choice: Martin Feldstein, 42, professor of economics at Harvard University and president of the prestigious National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Mass...