Word: successors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...enjoyed an excellent rapport that quickly trickled down through their respective bureaucracies. "We got energized knowing that our bosses were looking over our shoulders," says a U.S. diplomat. The meetings focused primarily on trade and economic issues; though Mulroney has not yet named MacEachen's successor, both U.S. and Canadian officials expect trade barriers to fall...
...confident and tough spokesman for his country when he presented the Soviet explanation for the downing of Korean Air Lines Flight 007 in an unusual press conference. Such indications of Ogarkov's growing prominence had led many Kremlin watchers to view him as a possible successor to Defense Minister Dmitri Ustinov, and there was initial speculation last week that his "reassignment" might be part of sweeping changes in the leadership, possibly involving Chernenko, that the Kremlin wanted to keep hidden...
...middle and end as well as a beginning. GOLEM XIV is the last in a line of increasingly super computers developed to monitor the U.S. interests in peace or war. Unfortunately, it has grown indifferent to this task, and so has HONEST ANNIE, its superior and supposedly foolproof successor. Says one of the commentators on this debacle: "In a word, it had cost the United States $276 billion to construct a set of luminal philosophers." GOLEM lapses into total silence but leaves behind several lectures in which it puts Homo sapiens in an unflattering light ("After its early mastery, Evolution...
...designed in the early 1970s as a successor to the B-52, which is now considered lumbering and vulnerable to sophisticated Soviet radar. Indeed, the chief attribute of the redesigned B-1B is that it can fly low to the ground, making it only one one-hundredth as detectable by radar as the B-52. As designed, the four-engine, needle-nosed B-1B is built to carry nuclear bombs and launch cruise missiles. It can fly long distances at high altitudes and supersonic speeds (750 m.p.h. or more). But once the plane nears enemy territory, it can dive down...
Knapp's successor will be William Popejoy, 46, a longtime industry executive who was president of American Savings before F.C.A. bought the thrift in 1983. Popejoy will have no time to ease into his new job. F.C.A. reported on Aug. 15 that it has certificates of deposit worth about $15 billion that mature by the end of September. Popejoy must quickly convince investors not to pull out all that money...