Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...implore President Liston to add these two points to his agenda in the coming year: First, clean up your act. Make your presidency answerable to your predecessor's "No Scandal Guarantee." Gain some legitimacy in the eyes of your constituents so that maybe you can do more than throw dances and squeak at meetings of the Committee on House Life...
...Executive Director of HASCS, Steen's job is to make sure Harvard's computer systems are running and able to support the needs of Harvard's 10,000 users. Compared to his predecessor, Steen has done an admirable job of keeping the system running quickly, especially considering that HASCS is underfunded and understaffed...
...inspired by the paintings of Edward Hopper. In the U.S., where opera must pay for itself, companies can rarely afford productions that may be one-year sensations. When Met general manager Joseph Volpe ordered up Butterfly, he wanted a show that could be admired for as long as its predecessor lasted-36 years...
Bennett recognizes a certain debt to a famous predecessor. As George recovers from his illness, he reads aloud from "King Lear" with his doctor. Bennett's king, however, is not about to be destroyed by his heirs and followers like his Shakespearean predecessor...
Power Play: B-. Nothing seems to work--and Tomassoni has tried just about everything. Harvard hasn't even sniffed the excellence of last year's wonder-unit; its 17.5 percent success rate is barely half that of its predecessor, and given the amount of skilled talent still present to fill the slots on the five-on-four, that fact is most irksome...