Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...things pile up and don't finish them of completely," says the recently named dean. He claims that if he could borrow one quality from his predecessor, it would be Fox's persistent efficiency. He praises the 6-ft., 9-in. dean for his "efficient management of a whole host of problems...
...past, and especially during the tenure of Spence's predecessor, Geyser University Professor Henry Rosovsky, the dean of the Faculty has traditionally run a tight ship and maintained a strong hold over all University Hall operations. And Spence, despite his well-experienced staff, contends that he will maintain strong control over the operation...
...chastened. But one of Reagan's strengths is that at such moments, he has an extraordinary control of his temper. Common sense crowds out darker impulses, and after eating crow for half an hour on prime time, the President -- and the country -- mercifully moved on. Now, like his predecessor, Reagan is learning that moving the fleet and grimacing on television have little effect on a fanatic...
...that moment, a new era of high-speed computing began. The Cray-2 has the world's largest internal memory capacity (2 billion bytes) and a top speed of 1.2 billion FLOPS (floating point, or arithmetical, operations per second), six to twelve times faster than its predecessor, the Cray-1, and 40,000 to 50,000 times faster than a personal computer. It outdistances the world's half-dozen other supercomputers -- machines specially designed to carry out vast numbers of repetitive calculations at incredible speeds -- and is expected to make short work of problems that have vexed scientists and engineers...
...been to force heads of government, especially the American President, to brief themselves on details of trade, currency and interest-rate problems that they might otherwise neglect and to make an effort to gauge what impact their economic policies have on other countries. West German Chancellor Kohl's predecessor, Helmut Schmidt, in an often quoted reflection on the eight summits he attended, said that "they did not bring about much, but what they avoided was of enormous importance." At every summit, for example, the seven leaders renew what amounts to a ritual vow to uphold free trade and shun...