He must take up his duties immediately, now that the old Canon, long ailing, has finally admitted defeat and been persuaded to go.
When Papa Doc, long ailing from heart problems and the aftermaths of a diabetic coma, announced that he expected his son to be Haiti's next "president for life," the younger Duvalier said his politically minded sister, Marie-Denise, should fill the roll instead.
But, given its successful lobbying, can it be long before ailing airlines and failing retailers join the queue?
Largely because his predecessor, John Atta Mills, had long been ailing before he died in office in July 2012, a sense of drift had set in.
While the Khmer Rouge insists that he died of natural causes -- he was 73 years old and had long been ailing -- some Cambodia specialists believe that he may have been killed to prevent the possibility that he would be captured and implicate his associates in mass murder.
Personal computers, long an ailing member of the larger technology market, had a strong second quarter.
The Pfizer team selected children for its test from the long lines of ailing people seeking care at the hospital.
In response, Mr. Brandt, a so-called turnaround specialist who has long helped reorganize ailing companies, made a pledge: he will give Brennan $20,000 a year for his education, for four years.
The law, passed with the state budget last April, expanded the eligibility list to add those convicted of violent crimes including second-degree murder (like Mr. Jones), first-degree manslaughter and sex offenses, so long as the ailing inmates have served half their time.
"The Terminal" and "The Steerage" are here, but so are early genre scenes shot in Europe; wonderful off-beat portraits, including one of the New York frame maker George F. Of, with his thick beard and candid, amused gaze; and a number of autumnal Lake George landscapes made not long before the ailing Stieglitz abandoned photography in 1937.
They have been trying offset their ailing long distance revenues with local income, and leasing a network is far cheaper than building one.
