Word: successors
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...million homes). The channel's format has been diversified with more live programming, sitcoms (reruns of The Monkees and a British import called The Young Ones) and nonmusic inserts, like a series of reports on rock groupies. "We have changed directions," says MTV Entertainment President Tom Freston, successor to MTV Founder Robert Pittman, who left last fall to start his own media company, "from focusing on music alone to including life-style, the way people look, feel, dress. The challenge is to maintain freshness...
...select their nominee for President of South Korea. What a surprise. There was only one candidate, and his acceptance speech had been printed and distributed even before the vote took place. At 2 p.m., the convention cast 7,260 votes for Party Chairman Roh Tae Woo, the handpicked successor of President Chun Doo Hwan and the almost certain winner in the national elections planned for December. By 5 p.m. thousands of demonstrators had poured into the streets of Seoul and 21 other cities to protest the nomination...
...rises at 6, after only five hours' sleep, and breakfasts on black coffee and vitamin pills. She often fixes simple meals for herself and Husband Denis, 72, a retired businessman and avid golfer. Thatcher's own favorite recreation appears to be reading briefing papers. She has groomed no obvious successor among the Tories, and remarked early in the campaign that she might "go on and on," perhaps seeking a fourth term. "What would she do if she weren't Prime Minister?" asks Tory Chairman Tebbit. "One doesn't see her retiring to gardening or making marmalade." One does...
Nervousness swept through world financial markets as President Reagan announced Paul Volcker was stepping down as Federal Reserve Board chairman. For eight years, the central banker has literally and figuratively towered over his peers. His soft- spoken successor will face increasing political pressure as the 1988 presidential election draws near. See ECONOMY & BUSINESS...
...could assume a vital role in Mikhail Gorbachev' s campaign of perestroika (economic restructuring). -- With West Germany' s endorsement of the "double- zero" nuclear option, attention turns to the balance of conventional forces in Europe. -- Britain winds up a slick, "Americanized" election campaign. -- South Korea' s Chun chooses his successor...