Word: successors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...catch a glimpse of the gathering holy men. With the church's head, Patriarch Pimen, 78, so ill from diabetes that he made only brief appearances at most of the millennial events, speculation hovered over the sessions about which of the younger Metropolitans would be elected his eventual successor. "I'm waiting for the Gorbachev of the church," said Suzanne Massie of Harvard's Russian Research Center, who was in Moscow for the celebrations...
...trumpeted the device's imminent debut last October, then again in February, then March, then May, was crackling anew with anticipation. This time it was certain. On June 15, or at the latest June 16, the world would finally see the computer that Jobs has billed as the technological successor to the Apple II, the IBM PC and the Macintosh -- a machine known only by the name of his new company, NeXT...
...makes him the most powerful leader below Khomeini. Because he does not have the necessary religious credentials, Rafsanjani will never be able to inherit the Ayatullah's mantle. He may instead be content to serve as the power behind the throne of Ayatullah Hussein Ali Montazeri, Khomeini's designated successor as spiritual leader. But by assuming his new military duties Rafsanjani also risks becoming a scapegoat for future Iranian defeats...
...Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, there was one conspicuous absence: the school's dean. The university had been unable to fill that prominent post ever since former Newsweek Editor in Chief Osborn Elliott resigned two years ago. Last week Columbia President Michael Sovern finally announced a successor: Joan Konner, 57, a veteran television-documentary producer and a Columbia trustee since 1978. "She's been a very serious possibility from the beginning," said Sovern. "We didn't want anyone to think that we'd gone soft and were just taking the easy...
...review, which will likely be followed by a large fundraising campaign, will examine the schools academic and financial programs, as well as programs with crowded facilities. Bok said Vorenberg timed his resignation so that his successor would be able to begin and conduct the capital fund drive--the first in 20 years--which the internal review is expected to spark...