Word: successors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Unfortunately, that's what Khrushchev thought. Three years later he was involuntarily retired, scratching his head and watching his successor undo his "bold" idea. Thirty years later, as hordes of Kennedy School professors stake their careers on cleaning up the economic fallout of such "hairbrained schemes" (as those who deposed Khrushchev referred to this plan, among others), their president is preparing to embark on the same course of bureaucratic juggling...
Obsessed as he is, Randall insists he will someday relinquish the reins. He says he is looking, not too urgently, for a successor. The odds are against his building an institution that can last. But Timon finally makes the case that perhaps there is an institution that should last...
...were treating the Governor's mansion as a virtual hereditary monarchy; he won by a lopsided 17 points to complete one of the most amazing turnarounds ever. In a less noticed but important contest, Coleman Young, mayor of Detroit for 20 years, sought to anoint Sharon McPhail as his successor; she was buried under a 12-point landslide by Dennis Archer. Further underlining their anti- incumbent mood, voters in Maine, New York City and nearby Suffolk County enacted term limits for officeholders, including Mayor-elect Giuliani, while New Jerseyites passed a referendum that will give them the authority to remove...
...most calculating task of his career. He takes over as chairman, president and chief executive officer from Kay Whitmore, whose three-year tenure as CEO came to an ignominious end three months ago when the company's board of directors asked him to resign as soon as a successor could be found...
...done simply by cutting costs. "George Fisher is not just coming in to chop heads," says Michael Geran, an analyst at Pershing & Co. "He's a builder, not a destroyer. He's coming in to reinvent and re-energize the company." That's a challenge his successor at Motorola can gratefully skip...