Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...imported from France. Says Christian Coupechoux, the project director: "Sometimes we run out of beer and whisky, but we never run out of wine." Still, life is grim. Armed bandits, holdovers from the Sudan civil war of 1955-72, harass workers. Illness is rife; Coupe-choux's predecessor died early last year of malaria. Even more distressing are the unrelieved isolation, heat and monotony. Says Pierre Blanc, the project's technical director: "It's like living on an island, only worse...
Even if the lower chamber does not get to the bill before adjourning, another version will be introduced in the next session. Gov.-elect Michael S. Dukakis is considered more favorable towards the legislation than his predecessor...
...Ronald Reagan is inflexible. I say that he shows firmness of purpose, and I welcome the quality, which was so lacking in his predecessor. The President las every reason to be optimistic. Because of his policies, I no longer have to brace myself whenever I go into a store against the soaring prices caused by inflation. In addition, you note that the President ignores the advice of his subordinates. We elected Reagan, not his aides...
...come from as far as Cuba and Viet Nam to mark the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Soviet Union. Dressed in a smartly tailored blue suit and maroon tie, Andropov looked well-rested and healthier than he had five weeks earlier at the funeral of his predecessor, Leonid Brezhnev. But his sober demeanor suggested that he had reserved an important message for his first major televised speech to the nation...
...pragmatic and quiet but firm negotiator rather than an inspired political leader for difficult times. De la Madrid's reputation is based on his mastery of the details of economic planning, his simplicity of style and his personal probity. Few of those qualities were associated with his predecessor, López Portillo, by the end of the latter's six-year term...