Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fashion some way to let them earn their way back?" The effects of this pronouncement, formalized in Ford's speech to the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Chicago, stunned the vets and the nation. But why? Because the absence of simple decency in his predecessor had become an accepted condition of our national life. There is no other logical answer to the amnesty problem for a man who the Sunday before sat in his small church in Alexandria, Va., believing in the words of the old hymn he sang: "Blessings abound where'er he reigns;/ The prisoner leaps...
...Brown Sugar." The Dutch connection is not as big or as broad as its famed French predecessor-at least not yet. Until a U.S.-sponsored multilateral crackdown on the international drug traffic began to take effect last year, laboratories in Southern France converted staggering quantities of Turkish opium into heroin for distribution in the U.S. and other countries. Police seizures of as much as 50 kilograms (110 lbs.) of heroin were common. New York detectives two weeks ago captured 165 lbs. of Turkish-derived heroin (street value: $113 million) that was stashed in a shipment of Louis XIII furniture being...
...career academics as well. But Rosovsky has more to worry about than just keeping faculty members content. Like the people in Mass Hall, he spends a lot of his time worrying about how to cut down on the soaring costs of running a college education. Rosovsky and his predecessor, John T. Dunlop, have been steadily raising tuition fees at a $200-a-year clip, and there's no apparent end in sight to the increases...
...Chief Executive, immersed in his morning newspapers, sailed past them in the lane reserved for buses and car pools. Gone was the public hostility of yesterday as Nixon's presidency foundered; now there was a new President, totally contrasting in manner, mien and style from his predecessor, and he was moving fast...
Deeper Appreciation. Incoming A.B.A. President James Fellers, 61, says that he is "a bit more cautious and moderate" than Predecessor Smith, but he promised last week to continue the push for group legal services and a refurbishing of the code of legal ethics. A general practitioner in Oklahoma City, Fellers was president of the state bar in 1964 when a bribery scandal involving nearly half the Oklahoma supreme court led to a Fellers-appointed investigating committee. Final tally: one justice impeached and removed, two convicted of income tax evasion, and one dead before action could be taken. "Out of that...