Mr. Rosssi would be the first executive from the business side to directly succeed another businessman since the merger.
And it's never been the case that a president so admired has directly succeeded a president so reviled.
No one program will directly succeed "The Oprah Winfrey Show" because syndicated programs are sold to individual stations in scores of TV markets and shown at varying times of day.
And in case you think widows matter only in such rickety democracies as the Philippines and South Asia, consider that in America, eight senators and 38 Congresswomen have directly succeeded their husbands in their seats since 1921.At the moment several new factors are combining to favour the distaff side more.
Including 1868, when Ulysses S. Grant won a third consecutive election for Republicans but directly succeeded Johnson rather than Lincoln, the incumbent party's track record improves to 6-of-12 in the popular vote and 5-of-12 in the Electoral College.
Often, such spells of good and bad fortune and form would directly succeed one another a Rovers team that won the European Cup one year could find itself struggling to stay in Division One the next.
First, after dealing with fundamentals of critical care medicine as a whole, the book addresses both surgical and medical – where possible directly succeeding each other, such as the chapters on neurologic diseases and neurosurgical critical care – and thereafter discusses pathophysiologic aspects on organ-specific or disease-specific approaches.
If the Bank of Japan were to finance tax cuts directly, this could succeed where monetary and fiscal policies pursued separately could fail.
The fate of nerve cells is dependent largely on whether they succeed, directly or indirectly (through other neurons), in connecting with peripheral organs.
In the oft-repeated words of Clinton strategist James Carville, the key issue of the day was "the economy, stupid!" Bush, the first vice president since Martin Van Buren in 1836 to succeed directly to the presidency via an election rather than the death of the incumbent, lost to Clinton by a popular vote of 37 percent to Clinton's 43 percent; Perot garnered an impressive 19 percent of the vote.
