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...ability to manage contentious committees, skills that likely translated well to his current duties as chair of the Federal Open Market Committee. “The Board of Governors have greater influence than they did under Greenspan,” Stock said, referring to Bernanke’s predecessor. “You really want to be able to trust the wisdom of the Committee.” Bernanke is a particularly relevant choice in light of recent market turmoil brought on by a fall in housing prices and the defaults on millions of mortgages, a surge in oil prices...
Faust's approach to the issue of the military's presence on campus reflects a more measured approach than that of her predecessor, former University President Lawrence H. Summers...
...When Harvard was building the Center for Government and International Studies, Cambridge residents protested that their opinions had been neglected by Stone’s predecessor, Paul S. Grogan. They were upset that a proposed tunnel between the two buildings—which was later scrapped during the negotiations—was unnecessarily invasive and that construction would be too noisy...
...natural first destination; his predecessor, the 16th Karmapa, loved the country and died in a hospital outside Chicago. But Dorje also seems interested in a political connection. In a pretrip video, he described his religious goals but also expressed the hope that "by connecting with a powerful country such as the United States ... my own abilities to bring peace to the world ... will be enhanced." He says he'd like to spend two months a year...
That boldness combines with the likely influence of decisions of the California Supreme Court. It has a history of broad influence of the way other tribunals, including the U.S. Supreme Court, interpret fundamental constitutional issues. A case in point: 60 years ago, George's predecessor Justice Roger Traynor authored an equally groundbreaking - and divisive - opinion tossing out California's ban on interracial marriage. Nearly two decades later, the Supreme Court followed suit, citing the landmark California case. But it was a bumpy road. When the high court issued its famous Loving v. Virginia decision, there were still some 16 states...