Word: predecessors
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...Union (TIME, March 2). Though blacks will make up less than one-sixth of the potential membership of the superchurch, black delegates at COCU's annual meeting last month won a guarantee that each presiding bishop of the new church must have a "different racial background" from his predecessor-meaning that virtually every other one will be black...
...Congressman from California in 1958, when he was vice president of his family's farm-equipment company in Chico. A World War II draftee-he ended up as technician fourth grade -Tarr knows the draft system from the bottom up, without having been a professional soldier like his predecessor Lieut. General Lewis Hershey. After the war, Tarr received an A.B. from Stanford University and a master's degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration. He returned to Stanford for his Ph.D.; his doctoral thesis: Unification of America's Armed Forces: A Century and a Half...
...DUNE MESSIAH, which continues the story of Paul Atreides begun in Dune, will mean nothing to those who have not read its predecessor...
Past Agonies. The conversations, to be sure, covered a variety of less sensitive subjects. The two Presidents were agreed on the desirability of pursuing negotiations with the Soviet Union, the Eastern European states and China. In some areas, Pompidou sought to erase resentments caused by his haughty predecessor, Charles de Gaulle. It was clear that Franco-American relations have become less contentious in the area of finance; Pompidou urged strengthening of the dollar as the keystone of the international monetary system...
...bomb mankind's first true hope of peace. But Andreski and others are gloomy about its potential as a deterrent. As men and weapons have multiplied, so have wars. "Our own century," writes Andreski, "has so far been much more warlike than its predecessor." The evidence bears him out: since 1900, almost a 100 million men have died in 100 wars-compared with 3,845,000 in the 19th century...