Word: successors
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...long range plan is that the Charles and Joanne Dickinson Endowment would function as a permanent, named endowed fund at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government. The specific terms of the Endowment may be modified subsequently upon mutual agreement of the Dean, or his successor, and the donors. If, at some future time, the Endowment cannot be usefully applied to agreed upon purposes, they will be applied to such uses as will most nearly accomplish the donor's initial intent...
...well -- at least while oil profits let the good times roll. But, as an unusually subdued Edwin Edwards noted, "it has to end sometime." After finishing second in an open primary on Oct. 24, he admitted defeat in his attempt for a fourth term as Louisiana's Governor. His successor will be four- term Congressman Buddy Roemer, 43, a reform-minded conservative Democrat...
...speech, long viewed as an index of whether Deng's program would move forward, was a ringing endorsement of modernization. But Zhao watered down that optimism by noting it would take longer than expected to make the reforms work. Moreover, Deng's dreams of transferring power to a loyal successor remained largely unrealized. Although the final makeup of the Politburo, its Standing Committee and the party Secretariat will not be known until early this week, it appears that the top positions will be divided almost evenly between reformers and conservatives. The result will be continuing stalemates that only Deng...
...flaw in Deng's retirement plan was that he bet on the wrong man. His handpicked successor, Hu Yaobang, 72, a keen reformer, was dismissed as party leader in January for failing to control student demonstrators who were demanding freedom and democracy...
...climbed by 731.15 points on Friday, its third biggest rise ever, and an additional 563.87 points on Saturday. Controlling the effects of the second-week crash posed a substantial challenge for the lame-duck government of Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone, who hands over power on Nov. 6 to his successor, Noboru Takeshita. Following Monday's precipitous slump, the Japanese Finance Ministry quietly pressured major trust funds and insurance companies to begin a stock-buying blitz. Most complied, says Economist Kinji Yajima, because "management knows well enough that to ignore such requests is to ask for lots of trouble...