Word: successors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...vice president, Robert H. Scott, said last September that he would step down after a successor for his post was found. But though he still holds the University's top financial position in name, Scott is only working part-time as vice president for finance, his secretary said yesterday...
...Green's Successor...
Mexican Presidents cannot serve more than one term, but traditionally they have secretly selected the party's nominee and, in the process, their successor. Salinas picked Colosio, who then headed the government's social development secretariat last November, and most experts considered his election close to a sure thing. Now, only five months before the balloting, the P.R.I. has to find another candidate quickly, not only to resume campaigning but also to tamp down the tide of anxiety and insecurity. Uncharacteristically cooperative, the eight candidates suspended their campaigns...
...Bible. Reading that often tin-eared update of the beloved King James, Macdonald wrote, "is like walking through an old city that has just been given, if not a saturation bombing, a thorough going-over." As a satirical gadfly, cultural critic and detector of cant, Macdonald was a worthy successor to the sage of Baltimore, H.L. Mencken...
...liberated women willing to buy the successor to the corset? It does not hurt, but neither is it comfortable. Like shoes that never stop rubbing the back of your heel, it is always there, doing what nature did not intend, with wires sufficient to hold up a suspension bridge and pads that would protect Jim Kelly. And for what? To be more appealing? A few minutes ago, the Kate Moss waif effect was all the rage, together with its requisite minimizer bra -- a contraption that could raise your voice an octave...