Word: successors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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RESIGNED. WILLIAM BRATTON, 48, New York City police commissioner; in Manhattan. Bratton is credited by many for a remarkable 27% drop in crime. But Gotham gossip long suggested that his boss, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, resented the commissioner's media profile (including a TIME cover) and independent nature. Bratton's successor, fire commissioner Howard Safir, is a Giuliani loyalist...
Daniels calls me "a living historian who denies, albeit implicitly, that Slavery and its successor regime were not fully-fledged systems established and perpetuated by the white majority to steal the labor of African-Americans and deny them the opportunity to compete equally in society." In fact, I called slavery "repugnant," and I described the "successor regime" as "broadly institutionalized American racism...
...structure was copied from the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in the 1920s. Following his flight from the mainland, Chiang's martial-law regime banned opposition parties. Dissidents were jailed or went into exile, and newspapers and the broadcast media were tightly controlled. But Chiang's son and successor, Chiang Ching-kuo, opened the political system, lifting martial law in 1987. Lee succeeded him in 1988 and continued the reforms, holding the first parliamentary elections in 1992. Finally, with the direct presidential election, the move to democracy was complete...
...this must be viewed in the context of Beijing's current state of fragility, with Deng Xiaoping on his deathbed and his designated successor, Jiang Zemin, not firmly in control. Despite the government's success in raising the standard of living, its problem list is long: money-losing state enterprises, more than 100 million basically unemployed migrant workers, rampant corruption, growing gaps between rich and poor as well as between the booming coastal provinces and the neglected hinterland--all tinder for potential social unrest. Perhaps most important, an ideologically bankrupt Communist Party is relying on repression and nationalism to keep...
...pleaded for the Allies to support China in its war against Japan, taking Washington by storm in 1943 when she addressed a joint session of Congress. Defeated by the communists in 1949, the Chiangs fled to Taiwan, where he ruled until his death in 1975. Estranged from his successor, her stepson, she divided her time between Taiwan and the U.S. Now settled in New York City, she leads a quiet life of Methodist prayer, visiting old friends and avoiding politics. Still, appearing last week at a controversial exhibition of treasures her husband took from the mainland, she couldn't resist...