Word: second-in-command
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AYMAN AL-ZAWAHIRI, Osama bin Laden's second-in-command, in a video aired last week on al-Jazeera, threatening more American casualties if the U.S. does not withdraw from Iraq...
...Minister who lost the 2002 presidential battle in the first round, has emerged as the favorite to lead the 2007 challenge for the presidency by France's Socialist Party (PS). That result comes after two leading PS contenders tangled. Laurent Fabius, 58, was ousted as the party's second-in-command last week in a move led by PS first secretary François Hollande. Fabius' crime: defying party policy to campaign for a no vote on the E.U. constitution. "Fabius' reversal on the referendum was to provide him with support for a 2007 presidential bid," says Dominique Reyni...
That day, Harvard’s second-in-command sat near his boss after a second consecutive meeting in which faculty members lined up to criticize Summers’ leadership. Hyman did not say a word...
Also “memorable,” he says, was his interview with Vice President Dick Cheney at Camp David three days after September 11—when the second-in-command assured Russert and the rest of America that the terrorists would be brought to justice...
...intends to serve with any sort of mandate; he must resign to run in a special vice presidential election in the fall in which the student body—or, at the very least, the new Undergraduate Council membership—would have the chance to choose its second-in-command, and to grant or deny Capp the office that he now holds illegitimately...