Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kennedy to attack the balance-of-payments deficit by imposing an interest equalization tax. He can be expected to fight for the maintenance of present wage-price guidelines, work for continued easy credit, try to devise new means of reducing unemployment, and in general follow the blueprint of his predecessor. But he is cautious about predictions and somewhat wry about his promotion. "Walter had enough sense to get out while he was ahead," he says...
...cure the ills, the tall, scholarly Frei has more than a few ideas. Among those in the hard-planning stage: doubling Chile's 630,000-ton annual copper production in six years, vastly expanding the hesitant land reform program begun by his predecessor Jorge Alessandri, building such resources as pulp-yielding trees and the fishing potential of Chile's endless coastline. To help him, the new president has put together one of Latin America's most competent cabinets, drawing men from the top ranks of the professions, business, labor and government...
Gyges owed his accession to a strange whim of his predecessor, Kind Kandaules, who forced Gyges to gaze secretly at the queen in the in the nude. The queen noticed Gyges, however, and told him he must either kill her husband and become king, or himself be killed. He killed the busband and became king...
...month's general election, could not take part in the debate (he will probably be re-elected from a safe Labor constituency by year's end). Stung by chuckles from the Opposition benches, Wilson looked up from his notes and tore into a vitriolic attack on his predecessor, Sir Alec Douglas-Home, as well as on Peter Griffiths, the Tory candidate who defeated Gordon Walker at Smethwick, a Midlands industrial suburb that has colored immigrants...
...conciliate on Civil Rights. The threat of withdrawing federal projects and defense bases will be a strong force which the President may use for positive action instead of pacification. Now that he is no longer dependent on the South for electoral strength or support in Congress, Johnson, unlike his predecessor, will be able to expand the use of the Presidential office beyond minimal capacity in the creative promotion of Civil Rights...