11.   Schacht, who groomed his successor, also stayed on the board.

12.   There was talk that Masur would help groom a successor, but Guenther and Mehta said the music director took no part in the deliberations.

13.   Despite that and other brushes with death, Arafat has always refused to groom a successor, apparently viewing any leader-in-waiting as a potential threat.

14.   It will not be an easy task, as the party does not have a built-in mechanism to groom a successor in a systematic way.

15.   Mugabe has tried to groom successors, but in three cases ended up demoting heirs apparent he had promoted into the political mainstream.

16.   Suharto has not groomed a successor, possibly because he wanted to be seen as indispensable.

17.   Tudjman did not groom a successor, and the quarrel between hard-liners and moderates in the HDZ for control has only been exacerbated further by the election debacle.

18.   He has been criticized for not grooming a successor, especially in the wake of a quadruple heart bypass surgery last year.