Word: predecessor
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...Center," Estévez says. "Where is the policy here? How about trying to attract some investment." Being mayor of Mexico City is a traditional apprenticeship for presidential candidates of Ebrard's Democratic Revolution Party. But despite the entertainments he has introduced, Ebrard is constantly overshadowed by his mentor and predecessor Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who gained immense popularity through programs and projects for both the poor and the middle class...
...acre Allston campus—a $1 billion science complex—will remain on schedule and begin next spring.Although Faust said she has not committed the University to a dramatic change in planning, she appears to be taking a more consultative approach to the expansion compared with her predecessor, Lawrence. H. Summers.Faust has emphasized hearing from stakeholders on both sides of the river before committing Harvard to development projects, something critics of Summers say he failed to do.“We get a lot of e-mails about what’s happening now,” said...
Joshua D. Smith ’09 said that Faust seemed much more engaged when talking to students than her predecessor, Lawrence H. Summers...
...quality album, but it’s not one of Ghost’s best. Last year, Ghostface dropped both the phenomenal “Fishscale” and the surprisingly passable follow-up “More Fish,” which consisted of material withheld from its predecessor. Yet his newest album doesn’t quite meet the high standards he set on his last works. There’s nothing fundamentally wrong about “Big Doe”—it’s just not great. Killah’s notorious storytelling...
...Being mayor of Mexico City is a traditional apprenticeship for presidential candidates of Ebrard's leftist Democratic Revolution Party. But after a year in office, Ebrard shows no sign of becoming his party's anointed champion. He is constantly overshadowed by his mentor and predecessor, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who gained immense popularity with pension schemes for the poor and construction projects for the middle class. Lopez Obrador lost the 2006 presidential race to conservative Felipe Calderon by less than 0.5 percent of the vote in an election that was decided in the courts. The charismatic silver-haired leftist claims...