Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Spence will learn the ins and outs of his new job by meeting regularly with his predecessor over the next few months. Rosovsky said he would review all the departments, appointment procedures, the budget, and the problems of graduate and undergraduate education with Spence...
...Aren't there other elements in this business of your being perceived as reckless overseas? We do have troops in Lebanon, and you have been much tougher than your immediate predecessor, at least in foreign affairs...
...announcement in a team meeting last Friday came almost four years after the controversial resignation of Hays' predecessor. Stephanie Walsh, who cited problems with the Athletic Department and Harvard men's Coach Joe Bernal as her reasons for departure...
...well beaten path to the wealthy with only a few small side trails to public service? Two popular explanations prevail. One hypothesis is that today's college graduate is less idealistic, more selfish than his predecessor of a generation ago. He lacks a social conscience and cannot be counted on to change the world. The other theory accepts this view but embraces it So what if the sharpest mind makes the best living warding off anti-trust complaints? Society, through the market, has decided it values this the most. In the circular logic of pure capitalism, "utility has been optimized...
...Clark immediately moved to reassure the coastal states and environmentalists. Under his stewardship, he said, the Interior Department will seek to avoid the battling that characterized the offshore-leasing program in the past, even while it continues to pursue essentially the same pro-development policies as those of his predecessor. Said Clark: "We can work as partners...