Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...very personal role as Rumania's top man, Ceauşescu feels he has a predecessor. His office is dominated by a painting of Michael the Brave, a Walachian prince who briefly united what is present-day Rumania for the first time in 1600. At private gatherings it is not uncommon for the defiantly nationalistic Ceauşescu to break into a folk ballad about Michael's exploits...
...being ambassador to India, a post that is apparently a far cry from his previous work on the Urban Affairs Council. His latest appointment confirms his double role of academic savant and government servant--he has served the Federal government's executive branch nearly continuously since 1961. Like his predecessor, John Kenneth Galbraith, the most visible member of the Economics Department, Moynihan has added New Delhi to the well-tread Cambridge-Washington route. If he follows Galbraith's lead as the art collector by bringing back more Indian miniature paintings from his jaunt, the Fogg will welcome him home...
...arrogance appear enshrined, it is not likely that fair and responsive candidates will be seriously considered for the post of dean. Unless Bok earnestly and openly consults liberal Faculty, junior Faculty, and students before making his selection, we are likely to see a dean as stale as his predecessor, and several degrees more bland and petty...
...uncomfortable spotlight. At 35, he is the youngest man ever to head the agency, he is almost unknown among the Wall Streeters he will regulate-and he has one of the toughest acts in Washington to follow. In a whirlwind 22 months in office, his predecessor, William J. Casey, began more far-reaching reforms of the securities industry than at almost any time in the SEC's 38-year history. To mention only two, brokers who had always charged commissions fixed by stock exchanges were forced to negotiate rates with their clients on trades worth more than...
...merchant ships; since the late 1940s, the U.S.S.R. has invested millions of rubles in developing Polish yards. The regime of Communist Party Secretary Edward Gierek has decided to intensify that development. Gierek knows all too well that the bloody wage-price riots of 1970 that toppled his predecessor, Wladyslaw Gomulka, began with strikes in the Baltic docks and shipyards and is determined to keep the workers there prosperous. A major investment in the five-year plan that ends in 1975 is 7.5 billion zlotys ($341 million) for shipbuilding...