Word: predecessors
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Kissinger reportedly feared that he would be slighted by antiwar former colleagues if he attempted to return. His predecessor as national security advisor, Walt W. Rostow, was turned down by M. I. T. when he attempted to regain his post as professor of Economics there...
Died. Nikolai Shvernik, 82, loyal Stalinist and President of the Soviet Union from 1946 to 1954; in Moscow. Shvernik made his mark as a trade unionist, becoming leader of the movement in 1930 after his predecessor had been purged for showing too much interest in the welfare of workers; Shvernik transformed the unions into instruments of the state that put production before workers' rights, thus greatly assisting industrial growth...
...alumni donations did not meet expectations and the dean of the Faculty renewed the $20,000 subsidy for 1968-69 and 1969-70. In April, 1969, Dean Ford, Dunlop's predecessor, stated that be would reduce the subsidy by increments of $5000, starting in 1970-71, and would end the grant after June...
...there, and likewise removed from his hyperactive social life to "Monkhood": "I don't show my work to anybody, I am quite alone. / The only souls I feel toward are Henry Vaughan and Wordsworth." The Berryman of this section is naive, lacking the cocky self-assurance of his undergraduate predecessor. He is easily awed by Paris, and completely stripped of his Columbia sophistication...
...case of mining, Allende felt that he needed a constitutional amendment. The "Chileanization" laws that were pushed through by his predecessor, Eduardo Frei, gave the government a 51% share in the copper mines, with options to buy the remaining 49%. There were two stipulations: in some cases the options had to be paid for in cash, not long-term government bonds, and could not be exercised if the mineowners objected. The amendment sweeps away such obstacles. Under it, the government could act unilaterally, and compensation would be whatever...