Word: predecessor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reagan's praise was faint, and the body language between the two men, as ever, betrayed discomfort. Nevertheless, Bush's advisers felt he had accomplished a major purpose of his visit: to shore up his crucial and complex relationship with his predecessor and, by extension, with Reagan's loyalists on the Republican right. As Bush jetted last week from Chicago to San Jose to Miami, pointing with pride to the accomplishments of his first 100 days, he and his aides stressed their "continuity" with Reagan and felt obliged to deny the obvious: embedded in their accomplishments are subtle but distinct...
...Your predecessor, Ronald W. Reagan, came into office with a clear set of objectives--beat inflation, rebuild the military, re-establish national pride. Within his first 100 days the hostages in Iran were released, inflation began to fall, Congress was forced to spend more on defense and the first space shuttle, Columbia, was launched successfully...
Aides and relatives of Takeshita and his predecessor, former Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone, are known to have purchased shares of Recruit Cosmos -- 12,000 and 29,000 respectively. Both men deny personal involvement. Those transactions, Takeshita declared last week, were "their personal dealings, not mine...
...blossom time on the Potomac, Bush has astonished the Beltway punditry by achieving resounding job approval (54% last week in a TIME/CNN poll, down slightly but still substantial). All the while he has been shrinking his nightly TV presence by as much as one-third compared with his predecessor's, and often he is nowhere to be seen on the front pages of the nation's newspapers...
...successful, much as his predecessor was, then such a sluggish model might well become the rule. Fearing voter backlash, future presidents and their parties might stagnate, balking at making bold policy suggestions...