Word: predecessor
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...Yale Daily News selected their new guard of editors over the weekend. The new editor-in-chief may or may not get a better internship gig than his predecessor, who was forced into a back room at Vanity Fair to watch eight hours of cable news straight for four consecutive days in August...
Halamka, who worked closely with his predecessor both while he was at the Medical School and most recently in central administration, said that Moriarty centralized Harvard’s telecommunication system and pushed for security measures to decrease the risk of privacy breaches...
Rodney G. Dennis, Morris’s predecessor, first approached Updike about the future of his archive over 40 years ago, and Updike began depositing his work at Harvard shortly thereafter...
...White House meeting Oct. 6, Senator John McCain of Arizona urged President Barack Obama to make a decision about additional troops in Afghanistan quickly and not make it a "leisurely process." Senator Carl Levin of Michigan noted that it had taken Obama's predecessor George W. Bush three months to order a surge in Iraq. Then Obama spoke. "John, I can assure you this won't be leisurely, as nobody feels more urgency to get this right than...
...Began his leadership on a positive note for Guinea, promising a war on drug traffickers and holding televised interrogations of his predecessor's corrupt associates...