Word: predecessor
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...fringes of a World Economic Forum meeting in St. Petersburg in June 2007 and gave a concise rationale for why they shouldn't worry. The Kremlin, he told them, would continue to claw back control of some energy and other deals transacted in the 1990s under his predecessor, Boris Yeltsin, that Putin viewed as highly disadvantageous to Russia. But, according to two CEOs who were present but who asked not to be identified, Putin assured them that everyone else was not only safe but very much welcome in Russia. "It was a brilliant performance," says one of the CEOs...
...blend soft, civilian targets with direct assaults on the armed forces," the French intelligence official says. Meanwhile, another French counter-terrorism official reacted to Tuesday's strike by harking back to terrorist violence that spilled out of Algeria and into France in the 1990s by AQIM's predecessor, the Armed Islamic Group (GIA). "It was only after the GIA reached the summit of its strengths in Algeria that it exported terrorism to France - meaning if history is repeating itself, we may be at a very dangerous place...
...Czechs had already signed up for the radar, but the negotiations with Poland had been dragging on since last November, when Donald Tusk took over as Prime Minister from his pro-U.S. conservative predecessor...
...best not to upset that fragile détente. Trips abroad by Taiwanese leaders are always diplomatically touchy since China does not recognize the island as an independent nation. But Ma is determined to keep his campaign promise of charting a smoother course with the mainland. Unlike his predecessor, Chen Shui-bian, who regularly traveled in a chartered 747, Ma will fly on a commercial airline to the U.S. on his way to attend presidential inaugurations in Paraguay and the Dominican Republic. And unlike Chen, whose 2001 trip to Latin America included controversial transit stops in New York City...
...diplomatic relations between Taiwan and the U.S. as an affront to Chinese sovereignty. The U.S., which acknowledges China's position but supplies Taiwan with military material, also treads cautiously, frequently denying Taiwanese leaders permission to visit the U.S. in order to avoid unnecessarily upsetting China. Ma "differs from his predecessor," says Lin Chong-pin, President of the Foundation on International and Cross-Strait Studies. "He is more sensitive to what Beijing feels...