Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...surfaces that refract the deeper feelings and emerging awarenesses of her characters. Some are confronted with familiar situations. The young woman in the title story learns the truth about her parents' marriage after her mother dies and her father's new wife tactfully but deliberately eliminates traces of her predecessor. The plot of The Skaters is complicated and, yes, Jamesian: a disinherited son is helped by his lawyer's wife, whose lover steals the original copy of the damaging will. Spencer is dispassionate about domestic morality but intensely curious about the things people do, the lies they live...
Scott said that although Quincy will have the same respnsibilities as his predecessor, John B. Williams III, the new name is "a clear statement by the University that this is an important function." He added "that doesn't mean it was less important when John did it." Williams' title was "assistant to the president...
...meantime, Leo A. Corbie, who has heldthe job of acting president for the past yearsince his predecessor stepped down for personalreasons, will remain in office. CUNY had hoped toreplace Corbie as of September 1, enabling him toreturn to his duties as vice chancellor forstudent affairs and special programs...
...department's criminal division under Gerald Ford. He won election to two terms as Pennsylvania Governor, earning a reputation for steadiness in his handling of the 1979 nuclear-power-plant crisis at Three Mile Island. Asked what he would do if required to review the ethics of his predecessor, Thornburgh replied that he would "follow the evidence wherever it may lead...
...unloaded on Republicans and Democrats alike who opposed the President's Iranian and contra policies. All that after Brother Bob told him about the fish. "He sees a complex federal agency as a bully pulpit," comments Joseph Duffey, chancellor of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and Bennett's predecessor at NEH. "It is the temperament of a preacher." Hawkins has another, perhaps more canny, perspective: "Bennett gives the answers of a professional politician rather than a professional educator" -- a judgment some observers see as the sum of his many parts...