Word: predecessors
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William Ruckelshaus, who replaced Burford at EPA, concedes it will be hard to defuse the issue. "Reagan's environmental image is hurt by the style and the approach of both my predecessor and [former Interior Secretary James] Watt," Ruckelshaus told TIME. "What happened here in the first couple of years of the Reagan Administration is not easy to defend...
President Reagan has consistently opposed mandatory passive restraints. In 1981, Drew Lewis, Dole's predecessor as Transportation Secretary, killed a Carter Administration order requiring them in all new cars by 1984. The Supreme Court, however, overturned that ruling and directed the Transportation Department to review the issue yet again. Although Dole says that Reagan approved her plan "as the most prudent way to go," the White House has tried to distance the President from the actual decision. "The court had us boxed in," said a White House aide. "What we did was as little as we could get away...
...stares. When two G.I.s in a pickup truck hit a local student last May, an angry mob pounced on the vehicle and set it ablaze. Most important, after ousting Alvarez in a barracks coup last April, General Walter López Reyes lost no time in publicly repudiating his predecessor's policy as a "distortion in the use of power, which endangers Honduras' peace-loving and democratic policy." Negotiation with the Sandinistas, he implied, was preferable to confrontation, and the economy was more important than the military...
Bangemann's appointment promises to bolster the F.D.P.'s status in the governing coalition. The Free Democrats have slipped badly in public opinion polls, and lost all four of their European Parliament seats in the elections. Unlike his predecessor, however, the new minister knows little about economics and inspires scant confidence among West Germany's business community...
King of the heap is the Harvard Square Theatre (3 Church St.), which does show Casablanca a lot. A couple of years ago it consolidated its one large roach-model of a theater into three smaller units. The one upstairs continues the daily double-feature tradition begun by its predecessor. Each day there is a different double feature--usually put together reasonably well. A few years ago, the groupings were more inventive, but now they seem to have found what pays and have decided to stick with it, serving up a steady diet of Woody Allen, Bogart, and James Bond...