Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they were there the year before. But if the new curriculum does not meet expectations, Faculty members and students working on the program won't be solely to blame. Rather, the pride and stubbornness of professors teaching in the Core could turn the program into a clone of its predecessor, General Education...
Although the 97th Congress itself will lean much further right than its predecessor, the Republicans are probably a bit premature in their morning-after predictions of a lasting conservative realignment...
Still, the next Congress will not be a carbon copy of its predecessor. Even if the Democrat vs. Republican lineup does not change much, congressional observers expect the outlook of both chambers to shift considerably to the right. Many Democrats, including liberals, have tried to keep pace with the conservative tide in the electorate. In addition, some prominent liberals may be defeated. Thus the next Congress may resist new spending programs, except on defense, and be more willing to strengthen agencies like...
...Like its predecessor, the new government is a carefully crafted, center-left coalition, with 27 Cabinet posts distributed according to a classic division of spoils: 14 for the dominant Christian Democrats (who won 38% of the vote in last year's election), seven for the Socialists (10%), and three each for the Social Democrats (4%) and Republicans (3%). Like Cossiga, Forlani, 54, is an affable, middle-of-the-road veteran of Rome's political wars, whose previous post was president of the Christian Democratic Party...
...first synod, however, Pope John Paul deliberately picked the treacherous topics his predecessor avoided: the whole range of family issues, including contraception, abortion, sexual morality and the thorny question of divorced Catholics involved in second marriages. The bishops talked for a month, and when the synod closed last week it was evident that on birth control, the assembly had buttressed tradition rather than questioned it. The end result was a reaffirmation of Paul's teaching by the 216 delegates, which not only strengthens official policy but also makes it appear less the view of one man in Rome...