Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Secretary hardly electrified the General Assembly with his 45-minute address outlining the Administration's approach to foreign policy. But Shultz's cautious, even ponderous style served him well in private sessions. Unlike his frenetic predecessor Alexander Haig, who sometimes had staffers burst into meetings with important cables, Shultz listens intently to his guests and responds slowly and softly. "He is rocklike," says an aide. In the assessment of one French diplomat, "he appears bien dans sa peau, self-confident." This reassuring style, more than anything else, showed that U.S. foreign policy, although not on a perfect course...
...rather than substance - what a Kohl aide has called "continuity with new accents." The new Chancellor will echo Schmidt's firm stand in support of the 1983 installation of intermediate-range cruise and Pershing II missiles in Western Europe, although he may face more vociferous opposition than his predecessor did from West Germany's burgeoning anti-nuclear movement. Also, Kohl is unlike ly to change West Germany's position on the building of the Soviet gas pipe line, since the project will have a direct effect on his country's business interests...
...economy was indeed weak when Ronald Reagan took oil ice, largely because of the one of his predecessor's policies that he has continued to follow--tight money. The rest of Reagan's macroeconomic policy has all the coherence of a Jackson Pollack canvas--a splash of tax breaks for the rich, a big dollop for the Pentagon, and plenty of white space for the poor and working class Reagan's defense buildup might conceivably create a few jobs, but unity for highly skilled workers and engineers in the already humming weapons plants of the Sun Belt...
...Like its predecessor, Amity II is based on the cheapest horror film sensationalism. Uncomplicated by plot development, the film relies heavily on lush cello vibrato and unexpected bumps in the night to raise the requisite goose pimples. And even these crashing windows and eerie breezes are overdone. Like a skin flick with too much skin, the effects of Amity II's repetitive "shocks" soon wear off. Halfway through the flick you're more unnerved by being practically alone in the large, dark theater than by the events on the screen...
...this second go at the Long Island nightmare does offer some improvements over its predecessor. We are spared until the end the embarrassingly hokey bleeding walls and talking rooms. And buried somewhere in the rubble is something approaching a theme...