41.   If this was not to be the farewell of a faded superstar, then at least it would be the starry anointing of a potential successor.

42.   It looked like a political victory for the gravel-voiced Lebed, who is trying to position himself as a potential successor for ailing President Boris Yeltsin.

43.   Katzenberg said he had placed Roth on a list of potential successors when he discussed the possibility of departing Disney last year.

44.   Mao lay dying, and his potential successors were engaged in a fierce power struggle.

45.   Meantime, the press is touting the names of potential successors, such as that of Saarland prime minister Oskar Lafontaine, a former candidate for Chancellor.

46.   Meridor is a Likud veteran often held up as a potential successor to Netanyahu.

47.   Miller had been seen both inside and outside the company as a potential successor to Picard.

48.   Neither potential successor is likely to do that.

49.   No, the former attorney for O.J. Simpson is not among the myriad candidates rumored as potential successors to the ousted John Blake.

50.   On Tuesday, Rais offered himself as a potential successor to Suharto, and Juoro is among those who say they think that he is up to the job.