Word: successors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Argentina the post of Economic Minister has become almost as star-crossed as the hyperinflated economy. The previous officeholder, Miguel Roig, 68, died July 14, just six days after he joined the Cabinet of incoming President Carlos Saul Menem. Roig's successor, businessman Nestor Rapanelli, 60, had been on the job only three days last week when newspaper reports disclosed that a judge in Venezuela had put out a warrant for his arrest in connection with a $6 billion trade-fraud scheme...
...Bloch is said to have been disappointed by his failure to become a full ambassador. He boasted to friends that he virtually ran the Vienna embassy under former Ambassador Helene von Damm, a Reagan appointee he regarded with scorn. Bloch got on the wrong side of Von Damm's successor, Ronald Lauder, who sent him packing. Colleagues praise Bloch's work in Washington, though some describe him as dull ("A boring little man," says one). He has been placed on leave and his security passes have been withdrawn while the investigation goes...
...public's confidence in the integrity of the game. The club owners, acting in concert, created the commissioner's office for the explicit purpose of clearing out the gamblers. Without any process at all, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis expelled everyone involved in the Black Sox scandal. His '40s successor, Happy Chandler, gave Brooklyn Dodgers manager Durocher a year's suspension merely for associating with gamblers. In the '60s Bowie Kuhn docked Detroit Tigers pitcher McLain a half-season for making book...
Throughout the long, 16-month search process to find a successor to Matina Horner, a debate raged over whether the new president should be an experienced administrator or a feminist scholar: Should Radcliffe continue to reduce its role in the lives of women undergraduates, or is it time for a change of direction? Is it, instead, time for Radcliffe to take on the role of advocate for women's issues within the University...
Khomeini's funeral ignites a frenzy as bizarre and incomprehensible as the passions he stirred during his ten-year rule. But the clerics move swiftly to designate his successor...