However, the five-member committee on vacancies charged with designating a replacement on the ballot has yet to meet.
In 1989 when Ayatollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Republic and its leader, died without designating a replacement, Rafsanjani, then a powerful parliamentary speaker, argued that Khomeini had been in favor of Khamenei's candidacy.
The White House later issued a statement saying that President Bush was designating a replacement, R. David Paulison, currently the director of FEMA's Preparedness Division and administrator of the United States Fire Administration.
The firm has not yet designated a replacement for Gordon, who resigned for personal reasons in September but will stay on board until early January.
There is no way that Putin has designated a successor, by anointing a replacement he loses power.
Howard H. Roberts Jr., president of New York City Transit, described Mr. Lombardi's departure as "a huge loss" and said plans for designating a permanent replacement were incomplete.
It plans to designate a group of directors on Friday to lead the search for Mr. Lewis's replacement.
For example, you can designate an unlimited number of potential replacement properties as long as the fair market value of the replacement properties does not exceed 200% of the aggregate fair market value of all the exchanged properties.
In a pivotal shake-up, Mr. Ling's designated replacement, an old colleague of Mr. Xi's, arrived in July, six weeks before the reshuffle was publicized.
The Type 2 gold dollar was struck only at Philadelphia in 1854 and 1855, at the three Southern branch mints in the latter year, and at San Francisco in 1856, after the design was designated for replacement.
