Word: successors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...heir apparent in the Kremlin, touched down last Saturday at London's Heathrow Airport, British officials were busy trying to downplay the importance of his eight-day official visit. The British feared that the trip would focus too much Western attention on his status as the most likely successor to Soviet Leader Konstantin Chernenko. That in turn might weaken Gorbachev's chances and strengthen those of his chief rival for the job, Grigori Romanov, 61, a fellow Politburo member widely considered to be a dogmatic hardliner. Nonetheless, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher will be looking for any clues...
...power of the council has varied from President to President and chairman to chairman. The CEA's influence reached its height under Walter Heller, who advised Kennedy and Johnson and devised the very successful tax cut of 1964. Gardner Ackley, Heller's successor, recalls meeting with Johnson as often as three times a day. On occasion they talked economics while rambling around in a Jeep on L.B.J.'s ranch...
...from a mysterious six-month exile in Switzerland and France. Rifaat's sudden re-emergence seemed to indicate that he might soon resume his public duties, which include overseeing Syria's state security apparatus, and that he might attain heightened status as his brother's likely successor...
...they really need," observed Jarvik after the first successful use of the device. According to Jarvik, other improvements in the technology are on the horizon. The current heart, which weighs three-quarters of a pound, is too large to fit in most women's smaller chest cavities; its successor, the Jarvik-8, will ultimately be available in more than one size, including a streamlined model for people with small frames...
...Czar Alexander III asked a St. Petersburg jeweler, Carl Faberge, to make an Easter present for his Empress. The gold and enamel egg so pleased the monarch that he commissioned at least one every Easter. His successor, Nicholas II, continued the tradition, and for the next 31 years, until the Bolsheviks put an end to such inspired extravagance, there was always a Faberge egg in the imperial Easter basket. A gorgeous rooster pops out of the Chanticleer egg to announce every hour; the Peacock egg hides an enameled gold bird that struts on cue and fans its multihued tail; inside...