Word: second-in-command
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...days that followed, the country struggled to resuscitate itself. Ershad established a special relief coordinating committee headed by his second-in-command, Rear Admiral Sultan Ahmed, and ordered Bangladesh's 150,000-man armed forces put on a "wartime footing" to help cope with the disaster. Some 20,000 military personnel and 50,000 civilians were enlisted for relief operations. The President also appealed to other nations for $50 million in emergency aid; he specifically requested cash rather than supplies, so that the stricken could be given immediate relief. "So many of the survivors have lost everything," he said...
...season last week long on pricey players, short on revenues and looking down the barrel of its own decision to take on the towering National Football League with a switch to a fall schedule in 1986. Even so, new U.S.F.L. Commissioner Harry Usher, fresh from his triumphs as second-in-command of last summer's Olympics, insists that "the state of the league has never been more positive than it is now." Looking back, he may be right...
RONALD REAGAN picked Bush in 1980 to balance his grass-roots Western conservatism with some Eastern Establishment moderatism. Selecting a vice president a vice president to balance the ticket is hardly new: the party nominee almost always chooses the potential second-in-command more for ideological or geographical appeal than for talent or expertise. This year's prematurely gleeful Democrats all too readily dissected their female candidate into the politically relevant pieces: woman, mother of three, Roman Catholic, Italian, liberal Democrat, and New Yorker...
Certainly it is not hard to picture Percy as vice-president, since the longtime senator invites comparisons to current second-in-command George Bush. Like Bush, Percy's opinions on a number of issues have, to use the vice president's expression, evolved. Before Reagan's victory, Percy remained an adamant opponent to the Kemp-Roth tax policies. Since 1981, he's been a happy supply-sider. He's spoken favorably on the nuclear freeze, only to work against it in the Senate. His positions on arms control measures and Soviet-American summits similarly defy consistency. As a Simon advertisement...
...second-in-command at PepsiCo Incorporated, one of the nation's most successful businesses, is expected to take up a tenured professorship at Harvard this spring...