Booker has been working to establish himself as the heir-apparent for 2014 -- which Lautenberg did not appreciate.
An ordinary farmer, for example, scored 25, a minister 10, 000, and the heir-apparent 100, 000.
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Until recently, the 51-year-old Mr Anwar looked like the heir-apparent to 73-year-old Dr Mahathir.
Its current one, Jack Stafford, was 62, looking to retirement, and without an heir-apparent.
And there is now no heir-apparent to Mr Reed or Mr Weill, who are both getting old.
But the spotlight could also, the Republicans hope, reflect badly on Mr Clinton and his heir-apparent, Mr Gore.
Mr Xhaferi's lot got several top jobs including that of deputy prime minister, which went to Bedredin Ibrahimi, his possible heir-apparent.
The answer is that no one knows, in part because, like most dictators, he has not allowed an heir-apparent to emerge.
Meanwhile a video appeared on the regime's YouTube channel, depicting heir-apparent Kim Jong-un driving his sports car into women and children.
For eight years Mr Dell promoted and groomed him as his heir-apparent.
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She has no heir-apparent: her vice-president, Amado Boudou, has been hamstrung by corruption accusations, and her son has never run for office.
In her confession, Kim made it clear that the orders to bomb the plane had come directly from Kim Il-sung or his son and heir-apparent, Kim Jong-il.
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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It was not until the 1995 municipal elections that she fought her first electoral battle, becoming deputy, and heir-apparent, to Pierre Mauroy, mayor since 1973 of Lille.
The opposition is hoping for a ruling family feud, as the son vies with his uncle to be heir-apparent (Basil had previously been touted as a successor).
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.
AMD's chief operating officer and heir-apparent to Mr Sanders, claims that his chip beats Itanium by running 32-bit applications without such software trickery, thanks to a more modern design.
The end effect is to remind Mr Clinton, and even more his heir-apparent, Mr Gore, that the Democrats cannot assume that the votes (and money) of America's Jews are automatically theirs.
The heir-apparent Kim Jong Un has Japanese ties: his mother, Ko Young-hee, was born into an ethnic Korean family in Osaka, one of several Japanese cities with Korean minorities (others are Kobe, Kyoto, Fukuoka).
These murky family quarrels were soon made worse when the second President Bush refused to do what the new Saudi heir-apparent most wanted apply his thumb to Israel, and put more effort into Middle East peacemaking.
It is in the midst of a shaky succession process, which is hard for any totalitarian regime, let alone one where the chubby heir-apparent, Mr Kim's son, Kim Jong Un, is little known or loved.
Instead of a limping president keeping his distance from a demoralised Democratic Party, there may well be a re-energised leader with his troops more or less united both behind him and behind his heir-apparent, Al Gore in sympathy and defiance.
When Mr. Ahmadinejad was declared the winner, Mr. Karroubi accused the revolutionary guards, the basij paramilitia and, most dangerously, Mr. Khamenei's son and heir-apparent, Mojtaba, of vote-rigging in at least three provinces, where the total number of votes cast outstripped the number of residents.
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More troubling, sycophancy to the Gandhi dynasty dictates that no young figure can outshine the bashful 42-year-old heir apparent, Rahul Gandhi, who had largely been absent from high-profile politics since a thumping defeat in important state polls in Uttar Pradesh in March.
North Korea's leader Kim Jong-il has appeared at national celebrations with his son and heir apparent Kim Jong-un.
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The fact that Anwar was Mahathir's own one-time heir apparent only made Dr. M's wrath more incandescent.
Missy Franklin, the 17-year-old heir apparent to Phelps, handed the U.S. a lead it would never lose in the first leg, the backstroke.
Prince Charles has become the longest-serving heir apparent in British history.
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