Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only among Democrats. "What happened to Jerry on the way down the avenue?" asks one disgruntled G.O.P. House leader. Once one of the congressional colleagues most open to consultation, Ford is now perceived as a loner who does not defer to Congress any more than did his isolated predecessor in the White House. "I don't know what's going on down there," says a top House Republican. "I don't know who's advising...
...Asian adventure, Ford was tempted to do just what his predecessor had done - use the summit euphoria to salve the domestic disruptions and the growing White House leadership malaise...
...energy crisis in the winter of 1974-75--this time, an impending shortage of coal-produced electricity instead of Arab-imported oil--poses most of the same threats to a sluggish economy its predecessor did, but fewer inscrutable mysteries. It is not foreign in origin. It is not contingent upon (or confused by) questions of finding new fuel sources. Most experts agree that America sits upon coal seams extensive enough to meet its needs for 80 to 100 years. It has a definite point of origin--November 12, the Tuesday when 120,000 coal-mining members of the United Mine...
...Socialists and Communists; both parties are at odds, each accusing the other of betraying the "union of the left" that was formed in 1972. Giscard, however, has been subject to sniping from Gaullists within the ranks of his parliamentary majority; they fear that he may be abandoning his predecessor's foreign policy of "grandeur." Another critic is former Foreign Minister Michel Jobert; he is currently touring the country, both promoting his bestselling autobiography and accusing Giscard of doing too little to control inflation...
...widespread defeats of Republican conservatives will make the 94th Congress decidedly more liberal than its predecessor. In the Senate, Democratic Victors Wendell H. Ford of Kentucky, Gary W. Hart of Colorado and Richard Stone of Florida are all to the left of the men they will replace. More important, the moderately conservative House will now become almost as liberal as the Senate?on both sides of the aisle. Only one member of the Wednesday Group, an ad hoc organization of moderate and liberal House Republicans, was defeated. In contrast, 30 of the 70 members of the conservative House Republican Steering...