Word: successors
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...mail to his staff announcing his resignation, he did not provide a reason for stepping down, stating only that he is “look[ing] forward to new challenges,” but planned to help Harvard through the transition process as University administrators search for his successor...
...always so easy to work with and brought people together,” said John D. Halamka, Moriarty’s successor as Harvard Medical School’s chief information officer. “I don’t think I’ve ever seen Dan unhappy or angry—he was very levelheaded...
Khomeini's successor as Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, continued to show the guards love, ensuring they got the latest military hardware and best facilities. They even set up their own university. Now the guard - sepah in Farsi - has evolved into what a study by the Rand Corp.'s National Defense Research Institute describes as an "expansive socio-political-economic conglomerate whose influence extends into virtually every corner of Iranian political life and society." Its commercial interests run into the billions of dollars and range from massive infrastructure projects to laser eye surgery. And in addition to the Intelligence Ministry, guardsmen...
Falk will be taking over as the successor to Morton O. Schapiro, an expert in the economics of higher education who left Williams after nine years at the helm to become president of Northwestern University...
...last month, the clean-cut Southerner was sporting scruff for the first time in memory. That wasn't the last change he had in store: on Sept. 30, Lewis unexpectedly announced he will step down by the end of the year, leaving the giant bank scrambling to find a successor. The 62-year-old garnered plaudits as he climbed the firm's rungs over 40 years, but he has absorbed a series of blows for his stewardship of the company during the financial crisis - particularly his bold takeover of Merrill Lynch in September 2008, which many critics believe...