Word: predecessors
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Conspicuously absent from Reagan's campaign-or Ford's -was any salute to the last Republican elected President. Ford did not even mention Nixon's name, substituting instead "my predecessor" or "Lyndon Johnson's successor." Explained the President: "It is better for all of us just not to remind ourselves of that unfortunate period...
Carter is not a strict Evangelical. When he was Governor, he outraged some Southern Baptist clergymen by calling Georgia's ban on Sunday liquor sales hypocritical because many people patronized bootleggers on the Sabbath. One of his first acts was to end the pompous religious service that his predecessor as Governor, Lester Maddox, held in the state house every morning. Carter thought that the service was pointless...
Billy Graham-Mister Evangelical -who sits on the boards of both Lindsell's magazine and Hubbard's seminary, calls the book "one of the most important of our generation." But other Evangelicals are less enthusiastic. Says Theologian Carl F.H. Henry, Lindsell's predecessor as editor of Christianity Today: "Lindsell is relying on theological atom bombing. As many Evangelical friends as foes end up as casualties...
...final two frames, Luongo made like his predecessor, allowing neither hits nor runs. The Eagles, meanwhile, scored once more--via two singles sandwiched around a stolen base--off Petkunas in the seventh, to make the final...
...Berkeley or Yale Law.) He hotly pursued affirmative action: the Governor's seven-person cabinet includes two women and one Chicano; one of his California state police bodyguards is Penelope Cravens, 27, a former stewardess. Helped mightily by a $768 million black-ink bequest from Predecessor Ronald Reagan, Brown honored his pledge to hold the line on taxes for individuals while keeping state spending growth to sub-Reagan rates. He signed into law a backlog of Reagan-blocked measures: new business taxes, a liberalized marijuana law, a so-called Gay Bill of Rights...