Ellison, for his part, will just keep on sailing--solo, when it comes to the succession question.
Plus, Rupert Murdoch appears to have settled the succession question, which has vexed the market, and anointed son James.
It also means that the succession question, which troubles both shareholders and subordinates, gets in the way of normal business.
News Corp. shares are up 1.6 percent this morning not surprising considering how fervently Wall Street has wished for resolution of the succession question.
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The succession question has bedeviled Eisner since the sudden death of Disney president Frank Wells in 1994 and Eisner's own quadruple-bypass surgery a few months later.
But his abrupt departure in January for a Turkish hospital, supposedly to be treated for bronchitis and to undergo unspecified tests, has brought the succession question to the fore.
The succession question, however, is only part of a broader struggle to apportion blame for the government's impending demise, a dispute that has already broken out within the Labour movement.
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Even so, the question of succession is beginning to intrude on the public consciousness.
But it's not only the tech world where the question of succession has taken hold.
Such crowding makes the question of succession more complex than in simple dictatorships.
But when it comes to the question of succession Speed - who has been heavily linked with the job - is refusing to look beyond the two crucial qualifying games.
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Yet the attempt on Mr Mubarak's life the fourth on record again raised the vexed question of the succession.
In 1992 he tried ineptly to clarify the question of the royal succession.
Lord Strathclyde had been forced to give the assurance as peers discussed some of Parliament's more obscure powers following Conservative peer Lord Trefgarne's question on changing the rules for succession to the Crown.
The rules on papal succession were open to interpretation and "this is a question that people are discussing", he said.
There have always been the question of whether Buffett has put in place an adequate succession plan at Berkshire Hathaway ( BRK.A).
On Monday , the Commons meets at 2.30pm for work and pensions questions, and then (unless there's a ministerial statement or urgent question), MPs will finish their consideration of the Succession to the Crown Bill.
However, the real question is this: Did the Citigroup board demonstrate effective CEO succession planning?
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Indeed, uncertainty over his eventual succession and that of Mr Aliev is among the more significant question-marks hanging over the region.
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