Word: predecessor
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...Erian himself adds to Harvard’s stock of brainpower. With a doctorate in economics from Oxford University, he has served as a senior official at the International Monetary Fund, the head of the emerging market research team at the predecessor to Citigroup, and as the chief of the Pacific Investment Management Company’s $28 billion emerging market portfolio...
...Murthy, who said she was “distracted” by the color change, several students criticized the clock’s appearance. Elizabeth R. Considine ’07 said that the new clock was not “as aesthetically appealing” as its predecessor. Tom G. Beatty ’06 added that the digital clock seemed out of place in contrast to the more dated architecture of the Cambridge Savings Bank façade. “It looked like something that had been stuck there in the 80s and didn?...
...your TV set and/or home-theater system then slide your iPod onto it. When you turn on the TV, you see an easy-to-navigate interface that lets you browse through all of the audio tracks on your iPod, be they protected files or plain-old MP3s. Like its predecessor, the Deluxe comes with a remote control. I especially liked being able to find a playlist with 100+ songs, start playing a song then, with one tap, putting the whole playlist into shuffle mode. That simple maneuver usually takes four or five clicks with the iPod?s own interface...
...McClellan?s predecessor, Ari Fleischer, told TIME the departure was a selfless recognition by McClellan of the importance of change. "The American people are going to give the President a second look here in his sixth year because he?s engineering these changes," Fleischer said. "That?s helpful. He needs the country to give him a second look...
...began working for Bush in the Texas Governor?s office in 1999, was one of the few people left in the West Wing known as "family" - put in his job because he was beloved by the President and because longtime confidant Karen Hughes wanted him there. Like Bolten?s predecessor, Andrew H. Card Jr., McClellan did not want to go. Although he had talked to colleagues sporadically about departing as long as a year ago, he had planned to stay until after the midterm election. Friends said he had gotten the internal signal and wanted to get it over with...