Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Dean of Radcliffe College Philip-pa Bovet said she is convinced that Mackay will do an excellent job, like her predecessor Janet A. Viggiani who gave up the post to travel and attend law school...
...professed a "don't mess with success" attitude towards programs supervised by her predecessor Viggiani...
...What an honor it is [to win the election]...You don't understand how difficult it was to run against two very good friends," Beys said. "To borrow a phrase from my predecessor, we've got to hit the ground running...
...winter . . . we force the spring") seemed mildly strained. But in concentrated form and effective, though plain, language, the President defined all the major themes of his Administration -- above all, change. Generational change: the 46-year-old Clinton paid a graceful tribute to the generation of his 68-year- old predecessor and summoned his fellow baby boomers less to take over than to assume "new responsibilities." Change in priorities: "We must invest more . . . and at the same time cut our massive debt." Change in government atmosphere: Washington, now "a place of intrigue and calculation," must be reformed, "so that power...
...graduate of Oberlin College, he co-wrote the 1992 book Marching in Place, an analysis of the Bush Administration. (His co-author, Dan Goodgame, will be leaving the White House beat to become TIME's economic correspondent.) Duffy thinks Clinton will preside under more pressure than his predecessor. "Bush basically enjoyed a free ride for three years," he says. "But Clinton will have to live up to enormous expectations immediately...