Word: successors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...successor, Rather, even felt compelled last week to make an on-air attempt to rally the troops, signing off Wednesday's newscast on behalf of "your can-do CBS Evening News." The question that remains, of course, is whether CBS News can do with less...
...founding in 1948, and hopes to show the world a peaceful face when it is host to the 1988 Summer Olympics. Chun, who would be the first South Korean leader to leave office voluntarily, wants to convert the presidential system into a parliamentary one that would choose his successor. That move would allow the party that controls the National . Assembly to name a Prime Minister. But opponents argue that under South Korea's complex method of apportioning seats, such a system would give Chun's Democratic Justice Party a stranglehold on power. That in turn would perpetuate the grip...
Craxi's most probable successor is Christian Democrat Giulio Andreotti, who has already been Prime Minister five times. An Andreotti government, though, may be short-lived. Many Italians expect that elections will be held earlier than the June 1988 date now scheduled...
...former election commission co-chairman said last month that his successor and another member of the commission had rigged last spring's election to help elect the current council vice chairman and another candidate, who lost...
...that Judy Blume is writing for grownups, we must regard John Hughes as her successor. His movies, like her young-adult novels, have good qualities. He knows what the teens' Top 40 moral issues are, and he places his stories in palpably realistic contexts. Not only do his kids speak up-to-the-minute adolescent idiom and illustrate the latest dress code perfectly, they attend clangorously class-conscious public high schools, whose unexamined values the protagonists must always challenge -- and defeat...