Mr. Steiger's successor, Marcus W. Brauchli, lasted less than a year, as a new owner, Rupert Murdoch, made a spate of changes in The Journal's content and its internal operations.
Beyond executive actions, the White House has made a spate of nominations in the last week, after having left many jobs unfilled at the State Department and elsewhere, and continues to lobby to win approval of a nominee to the District of Columbia Court of Appeals.
Phillips said he did not believe the spate of trades yesterday would affect his chances of making a deal.
Yet during his tenure, he presided over a spate of acquisitions and digital deals and made a raft of new hires.
The announcement was made despite a spate of technical problems involving the company's trial of the service begun in May and skepticism abroad about its viability, at least in the near term.
China has criticised Tibet's spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, over comments he reportedly made on a spate of self-immolations by ethnic Tibetans.
We now have a spate of very strange celebrities".
MOSCOW — President Dmitri A. Medvedev, trying to demonstrate the government's resolve after a spate of terrorist bombings, made a surprise visit on Thursday to one of the most tumultuous areas of Russia and called for "harsher" tactics to combat the insurgency.
In 2007, Pelle's clan made headlines when a spate of revenge killings with the Nirta-Strangio clan culminated in a bloodbath at a birthday party in an Italian restaurant in Duisburg, Germany.
