Word: successors
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...before leaving Washington for this week's Venice summit for leaders of the major industrial nations, the President said he had accepted with "great reluctance and regret" the resignation of Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, 59, effective in August at the end of his second four-year term. His successor, and thus the new Mr. Dollar, will be Alan Greenspan, 61, a highly regarded private economist (and longtime member of TIME's Board of Economists) who served as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers during the Ford Administration. Said Greenspan last week, after revealing that it took him "milliseconds...
...University's chief governing body, the oldest Corporation in the Western Hemisphere, has never had a member who was not white and male. The pressure to pick a minority or female member has increased as the Corporation readies its search for a successor to retiring member Andrew Heiskell, the former chairman of Time Magazine...
...supporters point to his Bitburg speech as a monument in European history because it came directly after President Reagan, and others, had sought to downplay the relevance of the Nazi years. To some, because 40 years have passed since the Third Reich was conquered, and because its successor government is an ally of the United States, the atrocities of the Nazis should not be inveighed so frequently...
Baker arrived at his Treasury assignment with a reputation as the Administration's Great Persuader, earned during four successful years as White House chief of staff. He carried on in the same vein, altering the confrontational tone of his predecessor (and successor as chief of staff) Donald Regan. On Third World debt issues, for example, Regan had preached the hard-nosed gospel of austerity for debtor nations. Baker soon changed that with his celebrated proposal for debt relief through renewed economic growth, to be fueled in part by some $20 billion in additional loans from commercial banks...
Until now, most anthropologists have believed that Homo habilis, a species that lived in eastern and southern Africa between 2 million and 1.5 million years ago, stood about the same height and had the same body build as Homo erectus, its successor. Homo habilis (literally, handy man) was the first human ancestor to make stone tools. The new Olduvai Gorge skeleton, however, suggests that Homo habilis was much smaller and more apelike than previously thought. If that is the case, says Johanson, the modern body type probably did not evolve until Homo erectus emerged some 1.6 million years ago. Moreover...