Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there. According to The Almanac of American Politics, during his 18 years in the senate, Percy has not sponsored or written one major piece of legislation. And Percy seldom uses his position as Chairman to advocate enlightened initiatives, or even to voice concern about troubling issues, as did his predecessor, the late Frank Church of Idaho. Where, for instance, were the Senate investigations after the Beirut bombings...
...only must the 39-year-old Peterkin confront the usual problems facing an urban school system-demanding parents, federal regulations, distribution of resources--but he must also contend with the seven-member School Committee which voted not to rehire his predecessor, William C. Lannon...
...himself in trouble by attempting to take credit for supporting civil rights measures that the Administration had at first opposed. President Reagan signed the longest extension of the Voting Rights Act in its history, Bush pointed out, and his Administration has pursued more civil rights cases than its predecessor "by far." Reagan did indeed sign the voting rights extension, agreed Ferraro, but only after the Senate had passed it by an overwhelming majority over Reagan's initial opposition. As for the civil rights cases, she declared sarcastically, "the reason they enforced them [is] because under the law they...
Wildlife. Under Secretary Watt, Interior had almost stopped adding threatened fauna and flora to the federal endangered-species list. By the end of 1984, Clark will have added about 20 species to the roster, an improvement over his predecessor but not nearly good enough, say the environmentalists. Some 4,000 plants and annuals are now seriously imperiled; at the current rate it will take about a century to classify them...
...vehicles and 40 aircraft, which have been buttressing the government of President Hissène Habré; the Libyans will pull out their 5,000 men from northern Chad, where they have been backing the rebel forces of Habré's onetime ally and ousted predecessor, Goukouni Oueddei. Libya and France greeted with relief their anticipated departure from the costly stalemate. But the Chadians, mired in a seesaw 19-year-old civil war, were anything but jubilant. Stung by the French failure to consult them before the agreement and skeptical of the mercurial Libyan's change of heart...