He doesn't have that power, and lots of people know that he's on the way out and doesn't have an heir apparent.
It put John Compton, the current head of Americas Foods, in charge of all the company's global groups, making him an heir apparent in the newly created role of president.
Its current one, Jack Stafford, was 62, looking to retirement, and without an heir-apparent.
The answer is that no one knows, in part because, like most dictators, he has not allowed an heir-apparent to emerge.
Mr Assad senior plucked his son from an ophthalmology course in London and brought him to Syria as heir-apparent on the death of his brother, Basil, in 1994.
Now we are left to wonder whether Mr. Murdoch will be forced to make an Abraham-like sacrifice and abandon his son James, the former heir apparent.
"George went up there as Sonny Corleone and came back as Michael, " he says, using an analogy from The Godfather--meaning Bush went from hothead to heir apparent.
Mr Assad, who trained as an eye doctor, never wanted to succeed his father but was made heir-apparent after his elder brother's death in a car crash.
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After an All-Star season in 2011, Robertson has been widely seen as Rivera's heir apparent, but Girardi wouldn't name him just yet.
An ordinary farmer, for example, scored 25, a minister 10, 000, and the heir-apparent 100, 000.
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Maung Aye, who is regarded as Than Shwe's heir apparent, was to officiate at the ceremony and I had hoped I might meet him and arrange an interview.
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