Word: successors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite the decade-old agreement, Sacks' announcement caught many members of the Law School faculty and administration by surprise. "Time goes by so quickly people had forgotten it has been ten years," James Vorenberg '49, associate dean of the Law School and a possible Sacks' successor, said last July...
After Wladyslaw Gomulka's 1970 ouster as Communist Party Chief, following a disastrous series of riots over food prices, his successor came to power on a wave of popular good will, a man of the people who would change things. As gregarious and outgoing as Gomulka was dour and withdrawn, Edward Gierek began meeting directly with workers to hear their complaints. Time and again he asked: "Will you help me?" Delighted with his down-to-earth style, the workers shouted back: "We will...
...integrated army can work. It's going to depend on who's running it. [My successor] has got to be somebody who has been declared acceptable to all the groups involved, and it has got to be a person with the experience and qualifications to do it. You can't get a civil servant to do it. You can't get a politician. It's got to be a soldier...
...years ago, violent food price riots broke out in the grimy Baltic seaport of Gdansk, spread rapidly to other regions and threatened to sweep the country. The government's brutal response left hundreds of workers dead and forced the resignation of Communist Party Leader Wladyslaw Gomulka. His successor, Edward Gierek, had good cause to reflect upon those events last week. The workers of Gdansk were up in arms again: 16,000 angry employees of the Lenin Shipyard went on strike and occupied the sprawling complex. They were soon joined by bus drivers and workers at some 17 other factories...
...chairman of the Dow Chemical Co., and replaced him with Abboud. The ex-banker thus became the fifth man tapped for the Oxy-Pete presidency in the past decade by Hammer, who after 23 years at Occidental shows no signs of wanting to yield real authority to any possible successor. Said Hammer of his latest No. 2: "He's a brilliant banker and a smart businessman. He's very loyal and a man of great modesty. I like that." Abboud himself has no illusions about his chances for promotion. Says he: "Dr. Hammer will be with...