The latest to announce his departure is finance director Laurie McIlwee, and there is no replacement in sight, even though rumours of his departure had been circulating for months.
With no replacement in sight, a former official told me, the N.S.C. has been forced to "farm out" papers on important issues to the C.I.A. and the State Department.
Levi Strauss is still reeling, too, from a chaotic management shake-up in January 1999, when the company's president, Peter Jacobi -- a Levi veteran who had been in charge of operations only a year -- retired under a cloud with no replacement in sight.
The decision riles many former astronauts, among them Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon and one of several distinguished signatories on a letter to Charles Bolden, Nasa administrator, and President Obama last week lamenting the end of the shuttle era and the fact that there's no replacement in sight.
There is not a replacement in sight, except for Paul Collingwood, and magnificent though it was when he led the Twenty20 team to world glory last May, it is not possible to envisage his resuming a job he could hardly wait to shed the first time.
Last month, it forced out Chairman and Chief Executive Christopher B. Galvin Christopher B. Galvin without a replacement in sight, and last week the company announced plans to spin off its semiconductor business, which accounts for 18% of its sales.
Trees missing here and there, along tree-lined streets, and no replacement in sight.
Was "parting ways" with Laurie -- a smart, sophisticated editor who knows L.A. like the back of her hand -- a good idea, especially with no replacement in sight?
I'm not suggesting that won't change, but I am suggesting that there is no replacement in sight for the very important work that is done by newspapers across the country.
Many were near duplicates of one another and most boiled down to symbolic bids at blocking legislation that would reduce the level or quality of healthcare coverage, end popular elements of the ACA, or allow a repeal of Obamacare without a replacement in sight.
