Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite his casual approach, Soglin has accomplished much in his first year in office. As alderman, Soglin supported a proposal to turn the city's State Street into a pedestrian mall. Last week construction began on the $15 million project, which had been vetoed by his predecessor, who feared it would turn the street into a hippie haven...
...chaired the Joint Committee on Presbyterian Union since 1969. As for the Southerners, they elected Dr. Lawrence W. Bottoms, 66, the first black man ever to become moderator of the once segregated denomination. At his investiture, Bottoms got one of the week's few laughs. As his predecessor put the chain with the traditional cross of office over his head, the new moderator remarked: "Any time any white person puts anything around my neck, it makes me nervous...
Shoring up Keidanren's image is the first order of business for its new president, former Toshiba Electric Chairman Toshiwo Doko. At 77 - only three years younger than his predecessor -Doko continues Keidanren's tradition of gerontocracy. But he is a man of action who skippered the recovery of Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries (shipbuilding), then switched to Toshiba in 1965 and led its resurgence from a deep plunge into debt...
...controversies still continue--the Kennedy Library and Kendall Square redevelopment. The fundamental problems remain--deteriorating housing, a shrinking tax base as the universities expand, police-community relations. Meanwhile, City Manager Sullivan assails the budget policies of his predecessor. For the city council, its politics as usual...
...dancing be given credit?" and answering that "we have lost the capacity to answer such questions because we have no criteria to do so." Within two years the new Redbook committee, he says, should try to reach a new consensus about what undergraduate education should be. Like its predecessor, the new committee's findings could have national significance...