Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wilcox, in contrast to his predecessor Jones, handled the graduate aid question without a major blowup. It had been widely speculated that Wilcox, the head of General Education, would be tapped for the permanent...
...sense, Matina Horner has run a one-woman show this past year, albeit inconspicuously in comparison to her predecessor, Polly Bunting. It has been a year of beginnings on many fronts. And it remains to be seen whether the momentum leading toward merger has really been halted or whether it has merely been channeled into areas which are preconditions for merger. How the theory translates into practice is the biggest question now facing Radcliffe...
...instead of the 10 million that some overly enthusiastic boosters contemplate. He will ask for a new master plan to prevent overdevelopment of the endangered Santa Monica Mountains. He hopes that his national prominence will attract the state and federal funds that he sorely needs. Unlike his predecessor, he does not plan to make so many trips out of the city for help or publicity. Let the world come to Tom Bradley-and maybe it will...
...days in the job, thus becoming another victim of the spreading Watergate-related revelations. Eleven short weeks ago, Cook seemed likely to make his mark as the youngest SEC chief ever (he is 36), and one who would carry out the far-reaching stock-market reforms begun by his predecessor, William J. Casey; instead, he will have only the unhappy distinction of the shortest chairmanship in the SEC's 39-year history. His departure leaves a shaken agency that will have difficulty carrying out its role of guiding and policing the nation's financial markets...
...pushed hard and successfully for the company's new Mini-Met, devoted to intimate or experimental operas in small halls with mostly young casts. To the Met staff's evident joy, he preserved and deepened the aura of good will between management and unions fostered by his predecessor, Goran Gentele, who was killed last July in a car crash in Sardinia before he ever really had a chance...