1.   Baca also claimed that Block planned to quit after winning re-election, forcing the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors to appoint his handpicked successor to the job.

2.   A suave, back-room operator who relishes flouting the rules, Madrazo knows he must deliver a victory to his handpicked successor, Manuel Andrade Diaz.

3.   But once his handpicked successor, David Glass, took over, the company got involved in one public relations blunder after another.

4.   By stepping down now, Yeltsin has given his handpicked successor, Vladimir Putin, the best chance to win elections that will take place in March.

5.   Coburn kept his pledge to retire after three terms, but his handpicked successor, Andy Ewing, was defeated by Brad Carson, a Democratic lawyer.

6.   Levy Mwanawasa, a former vice president, was the handpicked successor of the former president, Frederick Chiluba.

7.   Stepashin, who had been a former interior minister, had himself been considered a possible handpicked successor for Yeltsin.

8.   There have been other handpicked successors who did not fare so well.

9.   These were not casual acquaintances, but his mentor, only business partners and his handpicked successor in office.

10.   They also made a point of saying that while Salinas had sought repeatedly to meet with his handpicked successor, Zedillo had declined each time.