Word: successors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...combat big, aggressive competitors; weathering the relentless scrutiny of the press--has become difficult, if not impossible, for anyone to do well for very long. Biondi seems to have been the victim of another common business syndrome: an entrepreneur-owner's reluctance to hand over control to a successor. Redstone, who built his fortune from a chain of movie theaters, hired Biondi shortly after acquiring Viacom in a leveraged buyout in 1987. A Harvard M.B.A. and former chief executive at HBO, Biondi had a style that seemed to mesh well with that of the boss: Redstone, the volatile, confrontational owner...
...President was so sick during his last months in office that "he was no longer capable of carrying out his duties," a claim that Mitterrand's family and the politicians who worked with--and against--him deny. In any event, he turned over the keys of office to his successor, Jacques Chirac, last May. Finally, three Saturdays ago, according to the French newspaper Le Monde, he asked a doctor what would happen if he stopped taking all his medications except for pain-killers. The doctor replied that he would be dead in three days. Within three days, Mitterrand died...
Shula says his successor will be the choice of Huizenga alone, though Shula does recommend that he get the best available coach--even if it's Johnson, who once demoted Shula's son David when he was the Cowboys' offensive coordinator. Still, a new coach will be no guarantee of success. As outspoken linebacker Bryan Cox said on his radio show, "South Florida doesn't know what they're going to miss yet. Next year at this time, they'll be saying, 'We want Shula back...
...foreign minister. In contrast to Andrei Kozyrev, ousted amidst charges from parliament of being too soft toward the West, Primakov is expected to turn the focus of Russia's foreign policy toward the Middle East and the former Soviet republics. "It's clear that Yeltsin wanted to find a successor who would not appear to be pro-Western," says Moscow bureau chief John Kohan. "Since Zhirinovsky and his supporters have put the nationalist agenda on the map, Yeltsin has made a real effort to look like a Russian patriot. He wants to position himself more toward the center, while...
...interiors raise the obsessive cleanliness of Dutch domestic culture to the level of abstraction--no wonder his great Dutch successor, Mondrian, loved him, for that and other reasons. Vermeer's jonkers and juffers (dandies and damsels) are so neat, dressy and full of decorum that you can hardly compare them to the rowdier figures elsewhere in 17th century Dutch art, coming on with wineglasses and making gestures of sexual insinuation. Vermeer's are seldom marked by experience, and except for maids and servants, they all belong to the same stratum--a class, needless to say, rather above his. Does this...