Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trim, well-dressed lawyer from Santiago, Jorge Blanco, 55, advocates a mix of social liberalism and fiscal conservatism to steady the Dominican Republic's badly faltering economy. Like his predecessor, Antonio Guzmán Fernández, he faces an economy burdened with sharply higher oil costs (from $60 million in 1977 to an estimated $600 million this year) and depressed prices for such export commodities as sugar, gold, coffee and ferronickel. Almost half of the Dominican work force is either unemployed or underemployed...
...former Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, Senators Sam Nunn of Georgia and John Glenn of Ohio and Congressman Les Aspin of Wisconsin. To that chorus last week came an influential voice from the Republican side, Henry Kissinger. In a speech at The Hague, Vance and Muskie's predecessor as Secretary of State said of SALT II: "It seems to me a reasonable way to end the current impasse, establish a baseline for later reductions and end the agitation for quick fixes." Kissinger, who helped lay the groundwork for SALT II, recommended modifications to the treaty, such as slightly lowering...
...said in an hour-long speech to the People's Assembly on the day after the return of the Sinai. At the same time, Mubarak has left little doubt that he will gradually seek to repair the ties with the Arab world that were broken when his predecessor, Anwar Sadat, signed the treaty with Israel. Mubarak will probably not waste much time on Libya or on Syria, which vowed last week to "foil all attempts to welcome Egypt back into the Arab world." But the improvement of relations with the moderate Arab states has already begun. Last week...
Bennett's sense of direction may be admirably emphatic, but some humanists are fearful that if he defines the humanities too narrowly, important groups in the U.S. may be excluded. Says Predecessor Duffey: "Political pressures heave up against this agency all the time. But if you abandon the effort to maintain a credible peer review system, then you're turning the NEH into a kind of fiefdom." Bennett categorically rejects any implication that he has been asked to dismantle programs designed by and for traditionally liberal constituencies. He insists: "I have not had any suggestions from the White...
...Like its predecessor Mad Max (1979), The Road Warrior is set in the postnuclear future. The world has been totaled; civilization is a white-line junkyard; the only amenity is staying alive. Where there was high culture, now there is only car culture. In one of the film's first images, an automobile breaks angrily through one side of the truck that has been holding it; this is the caesarean birth of the new mutant marauders. They race across the scarred landscape on stripped-down motorcycles, killing for fuel, raping for fun, going to hell at 80 m.p.h...