successors

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This outlook suggests that, like Powell, the new Fed chairman, Kevin Warsh, and his successors will face unprecedented external shocks.

From Barron's • Jun. 2, 2026

"However, it also appears that his predecessors and successors also engaged in the practice," Cooper said last year.

From BBC • May 19, 2026

Like other family businesses, Laird & Co. has to figure out how to groom successors without forcing anybody into the business.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 10, 2026

No wonder Warren Buffett wrote in a 2007 letter to shareholders that a “farsighted capitalist” at Kitty Hawk would have done successors a favor by “shooting Orville down.”

From Barron's • May 8, 2026

Robert Schumann and his friend Felix Mendelssohn were German successors to Beethoven of a gentler mould.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall