Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...what exactly the fuss was about Many thought the proposed array of 90 courses as a "core" of basic knowledge was a bit idiosyncratic. Others went further and called it ludicrous. The vast majority of outside observers failed to see the distinction between the Core "revolution" and its sagging predecessor. General Education. And students, as Keller seems implicitly aware throughout her narrative, have on the whole persisted to the present day in their irritation at the contradictions of the system...
...Director Dr. Warren E. C. Warren and several of his colleagues say they have not been aware of the Clearinghouse file until recently They add that no complaints from the file have been brought formally to UHS Justice, who has held the post since last June, and her immediate predecessor, Nancy Ryan, both say they have seen the Clearinghouse file but that none of those cases have been considered formally...
...fact, the selections reflect President Bok's conscious desire for a decentralized administration made up of experts who independently rule. That structure on the whole seems to have worked remarkably well during Bok's 11 years. Certainly it has eased the fortress mentality that prevailed beore 1971. Bok's predecessor, Nathan M. Pusey '28, relied exclusively on a tiny inner circle of all-purpose advisors and was widely blamed for mismanaging events such as the student protests of the late 1960s...
...economic course to follow, the new chairman must naturally become actively involved in policy debates. At the same time he must not allow himself to become bogged down in interdepartmental feuding between the Treasury Department and the Office of Management and Budget. Affable Economist Murray Weidenbaum, Feldstein's predecessor in the post, cast himself in the roles of both arbitrator and peacemaker and found his influence consequently diminished. Feldstein, by contrast, plans to be every bit as forceful and direct as the other principals in the Administration's continuing economic debate...
...mistake, a sign of weakness for an incumbent to blame problems on his predecessor. After a year or so, it may be rubbing the public the wrong...