1.   Another big negative for Mack if he were elected vice president, is that Gov. Chiles, a Democrat, would pick his successor.

2.   A non-executive chairman can act more effectively as a lead independent director when it comes to such tricky matters as dropping an underperforming chief executive or picking his successor.

3.   Carthon had broad support from Jets players and would most likely have been the leading candidate had Bill Parcells remained with the Jets and picked the successor to Groh.

4.   Give him whatever he wants for two or three years, let him decide who stays and who goes, and then let him pick his successor.

5.   His successor will be picked in an orderly way, he said, although he does not speculate on who might take his place.

6.   Huxley said a search committee of educators, museum experts and others will be formed to pick a successor.

7.   If the Senate majority leader steps down before his term ends, the task of picking a successor falls to Gov. Bill Graves.

8.   In the old days, chief executives picked their successors, usually from inside the company.

9.   Martin Peretz, the editor in chief and chairman of the magazine, said that he had made no move to pick a successor yet.

10.   Now, by yielding the right of a president to pick his successor, Zedillo is forcing the party to rethink its methods.