Word: successors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most visible of the five is usually the vice president and general counsel, who for many years was Daniel Steiner '54. After 20 years at Harvard, Steiner left this summer, and his successor is still unknown. Rudenstine will probably appoint a new general counsel by the fall; until then, Frank J. Connors will act as Harvard's top lawyer...
Lenin had been determined to keep in check all popular stirrings, especially nationalistic ones. His successor, Joseph Stalin, perfected a system that was autocratic in the extreme and prone to territorial expansion. With the Nazis in retreat, there was a huge vacuum to be filled by the Red Army in Eastern Europe...
...space program for his paymasters in Moscow. Once back in Belgium, he and five others were arrested on espionage charges; Kindt has since admitted to receiving roughly $140,000 for his 25 years in the pay of the KGB and its postcommunist foreign-intelligen ce successor, the SVR (Russian Foreign Intelligence Service...
Discontent is high, but the P.L.O. has no successor for Arafat...
...likely successor, however, elicits much excitement, or confidence, among the Palestinians as a whole. Which is one reason why Arafat's recent triumphs over death have prompted expressions of support from his people. The Palestinians know that the chairman is the best they've got. Still, increasingly, they also seem to be concluding that that isn't good enough...