Word: predecessors
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...while some and Harvard and MIT researchersundoubtedly won approval from the U.S. AtomicEnergy Commission (a predecessor to the U.S.Department of Energy) for use of the radioactiveisotopes in their experiments, that link to thegovernment is still a tangential...
...campaign by GOP presidential candidate Bob Dole and others againstthe firm's distribution of rap and alternative music with violent lyrics. Michael Fuchs, recently named as chairman of Warner's worldwide music division, dismissed Morris and took over the domestic role himself. Morris' departure follows that of Fuchs' predecessor, Robert Morgado. The U.S. music division includes the Warner Bros. Records, Atlantic and Elektra labels...
...most part the sequel lives up to its predecessor. Frank is an entertaining storyteller, as loquacious as the people in Ford's more recent books (Rock Springs, Wildlife) are laconic. His conviction that it is possible to behave honorably-even while selling real estate-and to be useful to his fellow citizens commands respect. But his monopoly on the narrative eventually causes some uneasiness. Filled to the brim as he is with good intentions, Frank has a way of attracting misery to those around him. He reports these mishaps straightforwardly enough, but does not devote much thought or comment...
...term as president of the Black Students Association last year, Bragg was known as a mediator and, according to his predecessor, a "conciliator." It is not the usual role for the president of the BSA, which through the years has found that only controversial activism forced significant change from the Harvard administration...
Bragg's year provided a stark contrast both tothe protesters of 1969 and to the presidentialterms before and after his. His predecessor,Zaheer R. Ali '94, helped bring controversialspeakers like Jeffries to campus and sponsoredanti-administration broadsides with titles like,"On the Harvard Plantation" and "The PeculiarInstitution...