Word: successors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Chris Patten's democratic reforms finally sent Hong Kong's key barometer of confidence, the heretofore spook-proof stock market, plummeting nearly 8%. From London, where Patten coincidentally got a ringing endorsement from his friend Prime Minister John Major, Zhu Rongji, the otherwise reform-minded Vice Premier and likely successor to hard-line Premier Li Peng, said the plans violate the bedrock 1984 Sino-British Joint Declaration preserving Hong Kong's capitalist ways after the 1997 hand over. He added darkly, "People ask whether we have to stick to the Joint Declaration, or whether it should go with the wind...
...France is trying to stall any such reductions until after parliamentary elections in March. President Francois Mitterrand's Socialists face defeat as it is, but the anger of farmers with reduced incomes might cost them even more votes and seats than expected. Reasoning: it's better for a successor center-right government to reduce subsidies further and face farmer fury...
...addition, the scholar is working on a book tentatively titled Obligation, Professionalism and Race: Black Lawyers in Corporate Practice, and serving on the committee which is searching for a successor to former Law School Dean of Students Sarah E. Wald...
...Yale Corporation is currently compiling a list of 300 to 400 candidates to serve as Schmidt's successor. Schmidt resigned last spring to work with entrepreneur Christopher Whittle on designing a chain of private schools...
...corridors of the company's limestone-clad Detroit headquarters. The ouster shook even Stempel's union adversaries, who feared what life would be like after the boardroom coup led by John Smale, 65, the hard-charging retired chairman of Procter & Gamble. Smale has emerged as a possible Stempel successor and the real power inside the embattled company...