Word: successors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...best to outlast the Republican Presidents he frequently calls "those bastards." But his 83rd birthday was approaching, his health was so poor that he said he was "coming apart," and there was not much hope that a liberal Democrat would recapture the White House and name his successor. Last week Marshall, the only African American ever to serve as a Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, gave up the seat he had held since...
...before the deal could be signed and implemented, the regime of Mengistu's handpicked successor, Tesfaye Gebre-Kidan, imploded. Government troops turned on one another. Soldiers wantonly looted state property. Desperate, Tesfaye summoned Robert Houdek, the U.S. charge d'affaires in Addis Ababa, to tell him he could no longer control the situation. The interim Ethiopian leader promised he would issue a unilateral cease-fire and tell the people of the capital to welcome the rebels into the city...
Nintendo last week began taking bets on how many kids are going to win that argument. At the Summer Consumer Electronics Show in Chicago, the purveyor of the world's most successful electronic-game system unveiled its long-awaited successor: a gray plastic book-size box called the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. When it becomes available in September, Super NES will cost $199.95 (twice the price of the old NES) for the basic game machine, two hand-held controllers, the latest Super Mario Bros. adventure and a $50 coupon for another game. The machine will also be backed...
...chip, for example, can create 32,768 colors, compared with 52 for an 8-bit chip. But it's going to be hard to see those improvements on the fuzzy family TVs most Nintendo sets are plugged into. And because the original Nintendo -- and a portable successor called Game Boy -- uses different chips, the old games won't work in the new machine, rendering 200 million cartridges obsolete...
Instead, the 60-year-old administrator decided to leave the difficult task to his successor. And now President-designate Neil L. Rudenstine seems ready to accept that challenge...