Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mayor's desk was originally used by Fiorello La Guardia. It had to be raised for Koch, who is almost a foot taller than the only predecessor of whom he speaks admiringly ?partly for his ideas, partly for his fame. Raised now, the desk is a bit too high for Koch, thus giving symbolic pleasure to those who think that the current mayor cannot hold a candle to the Little Flower...
Ensconced in his office at the Elysée Palace, Mitterrand followed the example of an Olympian predecessor, Charles de Gaulle, and stayed nobly above the battle. He continued to pursue a skillful dual strategy of playing to his left-wing constituency, while reassuring skeptics that he would not go off on a Marxist bender...
Browne's ruling came on a motion filed last summer by two defense attorneys who took over the case after the defendants had dismissed Heller. The two faulted their predecessor for not seeking a quid pro quo when the youngsters confessed, such as a reduced charge or a promise of leniency. Said one of the lawyers, Al Gaudelli: "There was no deal. How is that in his clients' best interests...
...presence of this obsessive, comforting vision links Dad to Birdy (1979), Wharton's acclaimed first novel about an adolescent boy who wants to become a canary and fly. But Dad is a rather more tenuous success than its predecessor. For one thing, it dissipates some of its power in prolixity. When Dad goes through his brief recovery, Tremont notes, within a few pages, "he's like a seventeen-year-old . . . he could have some feelings of being physically thirteen or fourteen years old . . . he has all the ego isolation and drive of a twenty-year-old." These sound...
Middle East. As a much stronger supporter of Israel and the Camp David process than Giscard, Mitterrand will almost certainly back off from the overtly mercantile pro-Arab policy of his predecessor. In a rare moment of agreement, both Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and opposition Labor Party Leader Shimon Peres hailed Mitterrand last week as "a true friend of Israel...