Word: successors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...circumstances, more than people, made the difference. Hizballah began to run into trouble in 1989. Iran was in terrible straits after eight years of war with Iraq. The fiercely anti-American Khomeini died and his successor, President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, decided it was necessary to cool revolutionary rhetoric in order to woo desperately needed trade and investment from the West. The slow shift in Iran toward more pragmatic policies to end the country's pariah status was the biggest single reason the last U.S. hostages in Lebanon were finally released...
Colleagues of Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education David Pilbeam yesterday praised the outgoing dean's work, saying that his successor's top responsibilities will be to serve on a new Educational Policy Review committee and to help with the imminent capital campaign...
Pilbeam, who leaves after five years at the post, is departing at a critical time, leaving his successor to oversee the educational review and raise money at the same time...
...addition, Wolcowitz said that soliciting alumni donations, one of Pilbeam's strengths, will be an important role for his successor to play...
Reducing teaching loads and increasing stipends will likely be the top issues confronting the successor to outgoing Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) Brendan A. Maher, scholars said yesterday...