Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Israeli acceptance of a P.L.O. recognition deal would seem to require heavier pressure on the Jewish state than any U.S. Administiation has ever exercised. There are signs, however, that Washington may be edging into a mood to exert such pressure. Shultz is less sympathetic to Israeli policy than his predecessor, Alexander Haig. His boss, President Ronald Reagan, is reported by aides to be "livid" at Begin over the invasion of Lebanon and the civilian deaths it has caused. As a sign of displeasure, Reagan last week held up a shipment of cluster artillery shells to Israel while his Administration continued...
...announcement from Paris, President Reagan ordered the Commerce Department to study the legal implications of the French move. But he went out of his way to play down the Euro-American feud. Reagan stressed to a television interviewer in St. Louis that Mitterrand had inherited the contract from his predecessor, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing. Said Reagan: "Our allies pointed out to us that they had already gone forward to the point that they did not feel they could retreat." Washington could try to impose penalties, including fines and blacklisting in the U.S., if Alsthom-Atlantique and Nuovo...
What Mims saw and recorded in his way was what all 17 committee Senators who probed and then unanimously recommended Shultz had sensed. Namely, that he was a very different man from his predecessor, Alexander Haig, and that he would bring a new texture to the conduct of American foreign policy...
...glowing reviews for the book had already been written Criticism of Irving's literary world--now often described as unreal and unnecessarily violent--had to wait until the publication last summer of Irving's The Hotel New Hampshire, which was panned despite hardcover sales far more brisk than its predecessor...
...Variety story showing that the average cost of making a Hollywood movie, which had doubled since 1977, actually declined this year (from $9.6 million to $9.4 million). Of the early summer hits, none ran up a tab of more than $20 million. Star Trek II, which has matched its predecessor's early torrid pace, was made for $11 million, one-fourth the cost of the original; the sequel returned its production cost to Paramount within ten days of release...