Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...skeptical about the country's ability to sustain its good intentions toward its neighbors. Venezuela's own economic house is not totally in order. Unemployment is estimated at 12%, inflation at 15%. One reason for the economy's woes is that Herrera Campíns' predecessor, Carlos Andrés Pérez, encouraged a series of ill-advised state enterprises, such as steelmaking and air transport, that last year ran up losses estimated at $2.5 billion. Other important sectors of the economy, mainly agriculture, have been corroded by the massive inflow of oil money: once...
Maxime Victory Rafransoa, 46, a native of Madagascar with impeccably ecumenical credentials: he was baptized a Congregationalist, raised a Presbyterian and confirmed a Lutheran. More important, in contrast to his flamboyant predecessor, Rafransoa is soft-spoken and diplomatic...
...Mohammed Ali Raja'i as the country's latest Islamic President. But France, the country that provided political asylum for four months to Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini and for years to some of his closest aides, two weeks ago gave haven to Raja'i's predecessor, the ousted Abolhassan Banisadr, and to one of the Iranian Islamic regime's most dangerous foes, Massoud Rajavi, head of the leftist guerrilla organization called the Mujahedin. Despite an agreement to refrain from political activity while in France, Banisadr has been issuing combative statements and preparing a government-in-exile...
...Connor is generally expected to fit into that shifting middle, as her predecessor Stewart did; thus her appointment, at least initially, is likely to be less decisive a factor than if she had replaced one of the men on either the left or the right...
...Bartlett Giamatti, 43, lovable but rumpled president of Yale, comparing himself with dapper Predecessor Kingman Brewster: "I don't have his beautiful suits, but I wouldn't look good in them...