Ford's elevation to the post is due to a deal hammered out earlier this year between Sinn Féin and the Democratic Unionists at Hillsborough, which saved power-sharing.
Muhammad Badeea, a media-shy 66-year-old veterinarian, whose elevation to the post of the Brothers' "supreme guide" was announced on January 16th, is the eighth leader of a movement founded in 1928, with millions of sympathisers across the Muslim world.
Summers, an expert on foreign markets, has been groomed as his successor for months and his profile has been discreetly raised in anticipation of his elevation to the post at the helm of the Treasury, as illustrated by a recent Time cover that featured him standing alongside Rubin and Greenspan.
"To a great degree the battle will be decided within Pasok," said Venizelos, whose elevation to the post of party president was another episode in the unfolding crisis that cost the job of his predecessor – the former prime minister George Papandreou.
Ayatollah Khamenei was an unlikely successor to the patriarch of the revolution, the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, and his elevation to the post of supreme leader in 1989 might have sown the seeds for the political crisis the country is facing today.
Some prominent researchers and legislators, however, contend that Oleari lacks the research pedigree traditionally required to guide ISS; they are campaigning vigorously against his elevation to the post.
He started as a correction officer and served finally as chief of the department until his elevation to the civilian post of commissioner.
Mrs. Thatcher had telephoned Mr. Gorbachev to congratulate him on his recent elevation to the new post of Soviet President, Tass said.
Staggs' elevation to the COO post last year was widely seen as laying the groundwork for him to take over for Iger in 2018.
Kurt Waldheim was inaugurated today for a six-year term as Austria's President in a solemn session in Parliament, while artists and intellectuals staged mocking street protests against his elevation to the largely ceremonial post.
His obsession with royalty and Empire was not shared by all his colleagues, and when he proposed calling the new decimal currency the "Royal", they merely sniggered, as they did with his elevation to the archaic honorary post of Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports with its equally archaic uniform.
