Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dilemmas raised by the University's investment policies. Bok seems committed--above all else--to preserving the power structure that gives him and his six white male cohorts on the Corporation almost complete control over the University. Since setting up shop in Massachusetts Hall in the wake of his predecessor's inability to handle student protests, Bok has carefully consolidated his power and built up his own administrative structure. That administration has seen the power of the student protest movement erode, the development of an impotent student government that is an object of ridicule, and a return to a more...
...junior officer who must finally face down the monster in single combat. Cool, intelligent, yet vulnerable (and, of course, striking in appearance), she brings all these qualities to the sequel, which, seven years later, should make her a major star. For this movie stands to be something its predecessor was not, a megahit. And it deserves to be, for it is a remarkable accomplishment: a sequel that exceeds its predecessor in the reach of its appeal while giving Weaver new emotional dimensions to explore...
...movie has its fighters, its leaders, its guns, its synthetic person, its space ship technology, and its hideous slimy monsters. But the film also accurately portrays human interaction and emotion, rare for a movie of this genre. And you don't need to have seen its predecessor Alien to enjoy this sequel...
...establish the Commission on Pornography, he did not sit in on its hearings, and even late last week he maintained that he had not read the report. Yet Attorney General Edwin Meese is widely regarded as the driving force behind the commission that he inherited from his predecessor, William French Smith. Indeed, in his 16 months in office, the former Presidential Counsellor has emerged as the Administration's chief crusader for Ronald Reagan's social agenda. It is Ed Meese who speaks out against judicial activism, openly challenges Supreme Court decisions through Justice Department briefs, and selects conservative ideologues...
Kelly is no seeker of scandals, but by the 10th century, Peter's heritage had fallen into some rather unworthy hands. Pope Sergius III seized the papal throne by armed force and imprisoned his predecessor Christopher, who had already imprisoned his predecessor Leo V. Sergius then had both Popes strangled in jail. He also fathered an illegitimate son by a 15-year-old heiress named Marozia, who eventually got the debauched son chosen as Pope John XI soon after his 21st birthday. John's nephew, who was even more debauched, duly became John XII when barely...