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...says a lot about the scope and ambition of Pratt's concert program that a piece as great as the Bach acted as prelude. It also says a lot about Brahms' Op. 24 variations that the set succeeded as successor...
...rise up the party ranks received a major boost immediately following the Tiananmen Square massacre in June of 1989. In part for his bloodless handling of protests in Shanghai during the summer of that year, Deng chose Jiang as his successor...
...Colonial Williamsburg, Jiang posed for photographs wearing the three-cornered hat of American colonial times and met actors portraying Thomas Jefferson and Patrick Henry. In a sudden change of plans, Gov. George F. Allen of Virginia decided to spend Tuesday morning campaigning for his successor and his wife attended a formal lunch for Jiang in his place...
That momentum is likely to continue under Goizueta's probable successor, M. Douglas Ivester, 50, the company president, who is expected to be named CEO this week. It is a notable achievement that Goizueta built a management team that can absorb his loss. "They really have a depth of management," says Jennifer Solomon, an analyst at Salomon Brothers. "I would be much more concerned if this issue arose at some other companies." Ivester has virtually run Coke's operations since being appointed president three years ago, which allowed the cerebral Goizueta to manage the big picture...
...logic, directors of the phone giant last week handed the top job to C. Michael Armstrong, 59, chairman of Hughes Electronics, ending one of the most embarrassing corporate head hunts in recent memory. The board tapped Armstrong three months after disconnecting AT&T president John Walter as the designated successor to the embattled Robert Allen, 62, who is stepping down as chairman and CEO. Directors said Walter, who was plucked from printer R.R. Donnelley & Sons last year, lacked the "intellectual leadership" to head the seventh largest U.S. company...