Word: successors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Home shopping, the ultimate in couch-potato marketing, seemed, at its cable- TV debut a decade ago, to be the natural successor to the shopping mall. But years of selling such schlock as silver bracelets and cubic-zirconia rings, plus a series of scandals, mired the medium at the low end of the retail business, even as it grew to gross about $2.2 billion a year. Recently, though, home shopping has spiffed up its image, thanks in part to media mogul Barry Diller. Since joining QVC as chairman six months ago, Diller has buffed the industry's reputation by luring...
...nevertheless cut short a Chicago trip to meet with his boss, Attorney General Janet Reno. Neither would comment after the half-hour conference on Saturday; as Sessions left, he tripped over a curb and broke two bones in his elbow. A day earlier, President Clinton met with Sessions' possible successor: Judge Louis Freeh of New York...
...private he gives the White House signals that he will do so under certain conditions. At one time he said he wanted to stay in office until the end of 1993, thereby increasing his pension income $5,000 a year. Sessions told Justice officials he would resign once his successor is confirmed by the Senate, a move that would deny his nemesis Clarke a shot at being interim director. In an interview with TIME last Friday, Reno was poker-faced on Sessions even as other members of the Administration were growing weary of trying to persuade him to leave...
...White House has stepped up its search for a successor. One of the top candidates is Louis Freeh, a federal judge in New York. Freeh, a former FBI agent who later prosecuted the "pizza connection" heroin ring, is seen as a popular choice because of his experience with the agency. Another candidate is Lee Colwell, a former FBI official and current Clinton adviser who lives in Little Rock. No quick replacement is at hand, however, because the confirmation could take months, especially since the Senate will be tied up with the confirmation of Ruth Bader Ginsburg as a Supreme Court...
...high-level visitors from the agency. What was unusual was the cast of characters they were there to protect. When DeConcini's heavy wooden office door opened, out stepped CIA Director R. James Woolsey -- accompanied by none other than Yevgeni Primakov, head of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, successor organization to the KGB. Picking up their guards, the chiefs of the world's two largest intelligence agencies, once mortal enemies, bustled down the corridor to another meeting...