Word: successors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Coke, the outcome is turning out to be no contest. A red-faced Coca-Cola conceded last week that its original soft drink, which the company tried to bury in April only to revive as Classic Coke in July, is outselling New Coke, the drink's would-be successor. Industry insiders said that Classic Coke led New Coke 6 to 1 in some areas...
...year since Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was gunned down in her garden by two Sikh bodyguards, her son and successor Rajiv has demonstrated that he inherited more than just a name from the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty that has ruled India for all but five years since independence in 1947. A former pilot who once shunned politics, the young Gandhi, 41, has displayed a deft touch in guiding both foreign and domestic policy. His most recent triumph came in the troubled state of Punjab, where voters endorsed parties that supported a settlement Gandhi had negotiated with moderate Sikh leaders...
...grandfather and two uncles. Brennan, however, rose much farther through the ranks of the largest U.S. retailer. When Chairman Edward Telling, 66, announced last week that he will retire at year's end, it came as no surprise that he named Brennan, Sears' president since 1984, as his successor...
...corporate executives, naming a successor is like acknowledging one's own mortality. Even for secure, welladjusted CEOs it can be an unpleasant experience. Certainly it has proved a difficult task for Harry Jack Gray, 65, the chairman of Hartford-based United Technologies. Four potential successors have come and gone at United Technologies during the past six years. Last September, Heir Apparent Robert Carlson suddenly resigned as president, amid reports that Gray had allegedly wiretapped his office and home. An investigation by the company's directors uncovered no evidence of such skulduggery...
...most of its history, TIME has had only two drama critics: Louis Kronenberger (1938-61) and T.E. (Ted) Kalem (1961-85), who died of cancer this summer. Their successor is Associate Editor William A. Henry III, who this week inaugurates the new theater season with his reviews of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Song & Dance and Athol Fugard's The Blood Knot. Henry also wrote a critique on the "Festival of India," a series of events in the U.S. celebrating that ancient civilization's arts and culture...