Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Baker arrived at his Treasury assignment with a reputation as the Administration's Great Persuader, earned during four successful years as White House chief of staff. He carried on in the same vein, altering the confrontational tone of his predecessor (and successor as chief of staff) Donald Regan. On Third World debt issues, for example, Regan had preached the hard-nosed gospel of austerity for debtor nations. Baker soon changed that with his celebrated proposal for debt relief through renewed economic growth, to be fueled in part by some $20 billion in additional loans from commercial banks...
...hardened into not only a seagoing veteran but a self-conscious author as well: "I am in half a mind to publish!" Since three volumes seem commercially more promising than two, Talbot breaks off his narrative while he and his ship hover on the brink of disaster. Unlike its predecessor, Close Quarters advertises its own sequel. And that seems well worth waiting for, not only to see what happens to Edmund Talbot but to watch a Nobel laureate, the wind at his back for the final leg, sail...
Kinnock, 44, trim and combative and sporting in his lapel a red rose -- the Labor Party's new symbol -- was ebullient as he launched his campaign. It was notably different from the one that led to Labor's humiliating defeat in 1983 under his predecessor, Michael Foot. The Labor manifesto, titled Britain Will Win, ran a trim 17 pages, in contrast to 40 for the 1983 catalog of promises...
...Reed, 48, who has been Citicorp's chairman since 1984, the daring new policy highlights his emergence as the country's most influential banker (see box). By making such a turnabout on the loans, Reed is moving out of the shadow of his predecessor and mentor, Walter Wriston, who was largely responsible for Citicorp's eightfold expansion between 1967 and his retirement. Wriston was also the premier spokesmen for the go-go lending policies of U.S. banks in the 1970s. Even though to some extent Reed's current action repudiates his former boss's strategy, most bankers think Wriston would...
This is the big opportunity Beverly Hills Cop II misses. For there is an inherent problem about any sequel that too slavishly duplicates the style and substance of its predecessor; it cannot deliver the delight of discovery that the original provided. Axel made a swell first impression, but he is still living on it, perhaps not yet a bore, but not quite as fascinating as he once promised to be. This is not going to bother the apparently vast audience that now exists for twice-told tales about familiar figures. And it makes life easy for the guys in marketing...