Word: predecessor
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...September, and for the first time more people disapproved of him than approved. After early diplomatic successes in China and South Korea, scandals and controversies have entangled several top administration officials. There's growing doubt about his passion for carrying out economic and political reforms initiated by his predecessor Junichiro Koizumi, and his own advisers privately admit that the Prime Minister-who often seems scripted and ill at ease in public-is suffering in comparison to the remarkably mediagenic Koizumi. It doesn't help that Abe's young and inexperienced team lacks influence within its own party. With...
...Russian President Vladimir Putin--although you'd be well advised to keep it polite--but he has certainly re-established his country's credibility as a great power. Ten years ago, Russia was in a state of disarray reminiscent of the early 17th century "Time of Troubles." Putin's predecessor, Boris Yeltsin, was like a caricature of the disastrous Czar Boris Godunov, on whose watch Russia suffered hunger and humiliation. Plagued by heart trouble and alcohol abuse, Yeltsin had secured re-election in 1996 only by turning the privatization of the Russian energy sector into a sleazy scam, trading...
...subject of her predecessor, Faust said that of all of former University President Lawrence H. Summers’ qualities, the one she wished she could emulate most were his “sharp analytic skills...
...Hochschild, the Jayne professor of government, said in an interview yesterday.Among the challenges Faust will face in the coming years, professors across FAS said, defining the place of science in the University may be the most difficult—and the most essential.Faust’s controversial predecessor, Lawrence H. Summers, came under fire for, among other things, emphasizing science growth at the expense of other fields. Professor of the History of Science Everett I. Mendelsohn said that Summers “had hitched his wagon to the growth of the natural sciences...
...group also called on Faust to continue the work of predecessor, Lawrence H. Summers, in expanding ideological diversity within the University faculty and considering the concerns of ROTC students on campus...