Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President's style, though, contrasts sharply with that of his dour, ponderously rhetorical predecessor. Tall, barrel-chested and robustly athletic, López Portillo flashes ear-to-ear grins and laces his refreshingly brief speeches with humor. His inaugural address will probably be the longest oration of his life. He enjoys soccer or boxing as much as talk of public administration, economics or Mexican mythology. His writings include studies of both legal theory and Mexico's legendary god-king Quetzalcoatl...
Nonetheless, when the crazy-quilt pattern woven by 33 individualistic state electorates is stitched together next January, the 95th Senate will probably not differ much in ideology and not at all in party makeup from its predecessor. Though winning seven seats from the Democrats, the Republicans dropped seven of their own. Thus the 62%-to-38% Democratic margin remains as lopsided as before the 1976 campaigns...
...control-the scores of brief, unauthorized strikes and protests that have been taking place across the country. This discord reached even into the highest echelons of the party. At the mid-October session of the central committee, the frail, 76-year-old Luigi Longo, who was Berlinguer's predecessor as party boss, challenged the tactic of non-opposition because it put "the interests of the party in second place [merely] in order to show our national responsibility." He was countered by Giorgio Amendola, 69, a noted historian and essayist, who emphasized that Italy's current crisis (17% inflation...
...very encouraging. Graham has been a dedicated member of the city council, and a vocal advocate of rent control and the rights of the city's minority groups. In the state house, Graham should continue those efforts and serve Cambridge as a much more distinguished representative than her predecessor...
...even some Tories dismiss the coalition talk as partisan. "Old men's twaddle," snorted George Gale, the crusty columnist for the Daily Express. "What is being offered in all this talk of 'government of national unity' is yet another dose of escapism." Callaghan's predecessor, former Prime Minister Harold Wilson, told TIME that he opposed such a plan in peacetime because a national government "almost invariably produces fudged decisions." Moreover, Wilson added, the inclusion of Tories in the government would jeopardize the tenuous working agreement between the Callaghan government and the unions and lead to widespread...