Word: predecessor
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...when they’re delivered by someone pretty.Indeed, the candidates—all of whom have now appeared on countless talk shows and World Wrestling Entertainment’s “Raw”—could learn something about exposure and appeal from their disgraced predecessor. He turned up on a giant screen during the game show “Deal or No Deal” last week. To its host, Howie Mandel, President Bush cracked: “How’d you like to host a three-trillion dollar Deal or No Deal...
...that has built up around Padre Pio and other Church figures and relics, with its promise of special powers and healing the sick, is seen by some critics as veering toward superstition. Benedict has not condemned it, but he has made a point of slowing the output of his predecessor's so-called "saint factory," which during John Paul's 26-year papacy produced hundreds of canonizations...
...strong-dollar mantra was originated by O'Neill predecessor Robert Rubin in the mid-1990s precisely to avoid such confusion. "It was boring, it was dull, it was repetitive, it was nonintellectual, and it worked like a charm," is how Alan Greenspan once described it when he was Fed chairman. "By not varying the statement, an issue never arose about whether a comment involved a subtle change or not in the policy toward the dollar...
University President Drew G. Faust made known last week that she will attend the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) commissioning ceremony this spring. In so doing, Faust finds herself following in the footsteps of her predecessor Lawrence H. Summers, who was a strong advocate for students participating in ROTC during his term. John D. Longbrake, a spokesperson on President Faust’s behalf, did not specify what her specific role in the ceremony will be, but told The Crimson that President Faust would be “part of the program.” The ROTC program, which serves...
Later, at a chapel in Yonkers, he hugged two young disabled girls, before moving to an outdoor rally with seminarians and Catholic youth. As the crowd chanted "Viva il papa! Viva il papa!" (Long live the Pope!), Benedict seemed almost like his charismatic predecessor John Paul II, going off script, and saluting from every corner of the stage...