Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...exam period ends, but the legend lives on. Some day he may move on, as did his predecessor, John F. Adams, to an administrative position within the official University structure. Perhaps some day he will retire to publish his memoirs. But in the meantime, Harvard students will continue their love-hate relationship with Bill Edwards. They will continue to love the sense of continuity and curiosity he creates; they will continue to resent the authority he stands for when he finally barks out, "The exam is over." Bill Edwards has been at Harvard for the better part of a decade...
...budget deficit, kick up inflation and irrecoverably lead to recession. He opposes even the $25 billion cut and advocates starting at a lower figure, say $15 billion. But Ullman is not likely to prevail over O'Neill. Earnest, hard-working Ullman lacks the clout wielded by his predecessor, Wilbur Mills, in part because of recent reforms of House rules, which weakened all committee chairmen while strengthening the Speaker...
...maintained no matter what. The Israeli public apparently approves of Begin's firmness, because he remains the most popular leader that the country has had in years; a recent poll gave him a 68% rating, down from 80% in November but still higher than anything enjoyed by his predecessor, Yitzhak Rabin. He commands his Cabinet like an authoritarian godfather, and internal opposition is all but stilled. But Begin seems unable to contemplate surrendering any inch of land in the occupied territories where Israelis have settled, even when these footholds are clearly illegal. Last week his government stood...
When Washington State Coach Warren Powers completed a single successful season (6-5 after his predecessor's 3-8 record the year before), he picked up his whistle and left for the head coaching job at the University of Missouri-only to be reminded of some fine print in his contract. Plagued by the turnover in coaches (three in three years), Washington State officials had written a clause into Powers' three-year contract stipulating that if he left early, he would have to buy up his contract. For the privilege of earning $35,000 annually in the prestigious...
...June 1975. The Met decided to abolish the job of general manager and substitute a conglomerate-style troika: executive director (Anthony A. Bliss), music director (James Levine), director of production (John Dexter). This reorganization apparently reflected the board's resentment of Bing, Chapin's autocratic predecessor. William Rockefeller, board president in 1975, also complained that Chapin had become a public personality, as though that were...