Word: successors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...picked jurists of quality, Harvard's Tribe argues the opposite. "More likely," he says, "they feel that having made a nomination of such distinction, the President will think he has a free ride" to appoint a crony like Meese or Senator Laxalt. The choices made by Reagan, or his successor after 1988, will be immensely important, not just to the court but to the country. For the Rehnquist Court appears poised at the sort of historic divide that occurs only once every few decades...
White House Chief of Staff Donald Regan was determined to keep the choice of Burger's successor under tight control. He was afraid that leaks would set judges and politicians scrambling to lobby Reagan for their favorite choices. Instead, Regan wanted to present Reagan with a very few carefully screened names...
...President Reagan's so-called Orient Express), capable of taking off from runways and soaring into orbit, and a new generation of reusable rocket-powered craft that would reach orbit with a single-stage engine. These two new vehicles would compete to see which would become the shuttle's successor, carrying passengers and cargo between earth and the space station. Yet another craft, a kind of space truck, would also be created to move crews and material from space stations to geosynchronous orbits (22,300 miles up) and the moon...
...Islam scholar has been mentioned as a possible successor to Albertson Professor of Middle Eastern Studies Nadav Safran as head of the center. Following an investigation this winter into his use of CIA grants, Safran resigned the post effective July...
...speaking Soviet Ambassador to the U.S., Anatoli Dobrynin, had served as an invaluable back channel for quiet negotiations between the two superpowers. When Dobrynin was tapped in March for higher duties as a Central Committee Secretary in the Kremlin, diplomatic circles speculated that the Kremlin would pick as his successor another Americanologist, perhaps one of the highly regarded new generation of experts from the Foreign Ministry. So it came as a shock last week when Moscow announced that its new envoy to Washington was Yuri V. Dubinin, 55, a West European specialist who speaks little English...