1.   Big Mig could spend his last season grooming his successor, maybe even help him win the Tour de France.

2.   But his ego also meant that he never groomed a successor.

3.   Compare their actions to, say, Michael Eisner, who appears unable to share power by grooming a successor at Disney.

4.   Despite his age, they said, Davis resisted the notion of grooming a successor.

5.   Eisner denies that he has had trouble sharing power or grooming a successor.

6.   He spent little time campaigning for others or grooming a successor.

7.   How long will Gibson and Sawyer stay on before ABC finishes its indeterminate process of grooming successors?

8.   Mas had neither named nor groomed a successor and held the many fractious currents of the exile world together largely through force of personality and tenacity.

9.   Nor did Roosevelt groom a successor.

10.   One-man shows end when the one man retires -- unless he has groomed a successor.