"The performance of the businesses, where they've been and where they are, shows who's ahead to succeed Welch," said Nicholas Heymann, an analyst at Prudential Securities.
If the campaign to reignite the Wordsworth flame ahead of 2020 succeeds, the "moss-grown bar" of Wordsworth's Wishing Gate may soon be crowded with "strangers from afar".
The goal: identify which of the 200 have the best chance of succeeding in the year ahead.
The goal: identify which of the 100 U.S. companies in the list of 300 have the best chance of succeeding in the year ahead.
And with Ferdinand already having ruled himself out of succeeding Terry, Taylor sees Gerrard as the strongest remaining candidate, ahead of Manchester City goalkeeper Joe Hart and Tottenham midfielder Scott Parker.
Saint-Simon's proposals of social and economic planning were indeed ahead of his time, and succeeding Marxists, socialists, and capitalist reformers alike were indebted to his ideas in one way or another.
These years are a chance not only for me to hone my own voice as a future luminary, but also for me to gauge the work of those around me at every turn to confirm they aren't succeeding ahead of me.
Mubarak, 82, is believed to be in poor health, and there is speculation his son Gamal is being groomed to succeed him ahead of next year's presidential ballot.
Entrepreneurs, of course, need to anticipate the next market, but when it came to offshore wind, Mandelstam seemed too far ahead of the curve to ever succeed.
Ronald Reagan shows up ahead of Jimmy Carter, the man he succeeded, because of Reagan's potential as a presidential candidate in the 1968 election and Nixon's efforts to stop him.
Campbell has told friends that he also sees Brown as well ahead of any other rival to succeed Blair, although there is a small part of him that wonders, just wonders, if the Chancellor will ever fulfil his dream.
