Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chancellor is expected to ease credit restrictions a notch, lighten the 10% purchase tax on homes that has helped to perpetuate Britain's housing shortage. But eventually he will face the same problems as his predecessor, will have to try to maintain the pay pause-which the government now euphemistically calls "incomes policy." In the long term, Maudling hopes he can give labor and industry the incentives for the vigorous economic expansion that will in turn finance sorely needed school and hospital construction-and pave the way for another Tory election victory...
Culligan's appointment was greeted with general good will. The New York Herald Tribune wished him luck in an editorial, and the Associated Press called him "dynamic and picturesque." Said his predecessor, ex-President Robert E. MacNeal: "Don't worry about me, worry about my company." But Culligan was not about to worry. His long-term $120,000-a- year contract is rich with fringe benefits and he pronounces himself ready to work for every penny. "One of the legendary things they say about me is this capacity for work I have," he said. "If I work...
Common to all of them is long devotion to the goal set by that gentle needier, Raphael Demos, 70, holder of Harvard's imposing Alford professorship of natural religion, moral philosophy and civil polity (one predecessor: Josiah Royce). The goal: to plumb "who we are, what we know, and how we know it." A Greek immigrant who worked his way through Harvard as janitor of the Lampoon building, Christian Platonist (The Philosophy of Plato) Demos roiled Cambridge with Socratic questioning for 45 years. The aim of education, he argued, after Socrates, is to become more human by learning...
...when Khrushchev turned Kosygin's experience as an economic planner to use as the head of the State Planning Commission. During a tour of France two years ago, Khrushchev openly referred to his traveling companion as "my successor." Soon afterwards Kosygin was named a First Deputy Premier. His predecessor in the slot: Nikita's other heir apparent. Frol Kozlov...
Unless something is done, the state will have a deficit of $168 million by next July i. It is not entirely Kerners fault. He was the first Illinois Governor to inherit a budget deficit from his predecessor: some $13 million from Republican Governor William Stratton. The state legislature last year voted to spend $76 million more than Kerner asked for in his $3.1 billion budget, and the Republican-controlled senate rejected his plans to raise an extra $75 million, mainly through an increase in the corporation...