Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first Democratic Governor of California since 1983, Gray Davis, couldn't make up his mind whether illegal immigrants should receive emergency medical care, which a 1994 proposition banned. The proposition was successfully challenged in court, but Davis couldn't simply accept the court's ruling, even though his Republican predecessor had been the one behind the law. So, here we have another non-decision modeled on those made by Clinton--Davis decided to submit the ruling to mediation--another warm and fuzzy word meaning he gets to avoid making a decision...
...what he called "an amusing wrinkle," Lawrence's CEA predecessor, Jeffrey A. Frankel, resigned from the CEA in March--the month when Lawrence was nominated to the council--and has just accepted a professorship in international finance at the Kennedy School...
...other ways Dunn and her predecessor area study in contrasts...
...Grogan, whose urban-politics background contrasts sharply with that of his predecessor, Washington insider James H. Rowe III '73, has presented the University with a new vision for public relations focused more on the local community...
Though we may complain of the administration's shortcomings today, it is hard to imagine President Neil L. Rudenstine ever doing something so outrageous. Rudenstine and his predecessor Derek Bok, in fact, were selected partly for their ability to work with student protestors...