Word: successors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reinstating some taboo artists. He tried to appease two sides utterly uninterested in compromise -- one ablaze with the First Amendment, the other afire with populist indignation at forcing citizens to support unwelcome ideas. He was also contending with congressional demagoguery and, inside the agency, with a deputy and potential successor, Anne-Imelda Radice, widely regarded as a watchdog for the right...
Wright says he has sold over 50,000 copies of SimAnt, which was released by the Maxis software company last November as the successor to best-selling SimCity and SimEarth...
...fact hears there have been three unsuccessful coup attempts since the end of the gulf war. Americans add that Saddam has had 80-odd officers executed, and there are stories of gun battles in the streets of Baghdad between supporters of an ousted intelligence chief and followers of his successor...
...mandate to deal with matters of war and peace, has functioned reasonably well, especially during the showdown with Saddam Hussein over his invasion of Kuwait. But the Security Council is still a vestige of World War II. Its five permanent members -- the U.S., Britain, France, China and Russia (the successor state to the U.S.S.R.) -- were allies against Germany and Japan, two countries that are now economic superpowers in their own right...
...capital and the courage to tell his people that things will get much worse before they get any better. He has fielded Russia's A team. But in light of the country's shortage of free-market expertise, there is no B team. If Yeltsin's reforms fail, no successor will be able to do any better...