Word: predecessor
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Breaking with the precedent set by her predecessor Matthew L. Sundquist ’09, Flores will offer her endorsement to one of the tickets in the next few days, according to a source close to the president...
...capitalized on his government connections to make bets on the country's debt. His investments eventually soured, however, and Duer's bankruptcy brought down much of New York's economy in 1792; he died a few years later in debtors' prison. (The charter members of the Buttonwood Group, the predecessor of the New York Stock Exchange, first assembled to formulate a response to that market crash.) Nineteenth century railroad magnate Jay Gould didn't try to hide his flagrant insider trading; profits from buying and selling stock in his own companies helped make him one of the wealthiest...
Lymswam, who also owned Congas’ predecessor, Shabu Square, said that he decided to make the switch from hotpots to tapas after recognizing a relative lack of Spanish and Latin American food options among Harvard Square eateries. He formally requested to make the change to the License Commission in August...
...month after President Obama said he would scrap his predecessor's plans to place a U.S. missile-defense shield in Poland, Vice President Joe Biden announced that the East European ally would, in fact, host interceptors in a revamped version of the system. Obama's decision to remove Poland from the antiballistic-missile program had irked Warsaw, which viewed the deal as providing integral protection against potential long-range attacks...
Minow steps into the shoes of the most popular Harvard Law School Dean in recent memory. Her predecessor Elena Kagan has been credited with vastly expanding the faculty, presiding over a period of wildly successful fundraising, and healing rifts among faculty after decades of ideological conflict at the school...