Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...want to blame a Democratic Congress. More important, he will want to avoid the drag on the economy that the deficit has been over the last three years. President Bush, by fudging budget numbers and playing the blame game, ignored the debt and deficit begun by his predecessor. Now he is in deep trouble, unwilling to fight the deficit because such action would damage the economy even further and unable politically to wait for the recovery that will allow deficit-fighting. Clinton will learn the lesson...
Hoyte, 48, will assume the post of associate vice president for equal opportunity and affirmative action on November 1. The post has been filled by an acting coordinator since Hoyte's predecessor Ronald Quincy stepped down last year...
...fact, as historian Daniel J. Boorstin recounted in The Discoverers, 500 years earlier a civil servant named Su Sung had built a remarkably accurate astronomical clock for his Emperor. But when a new ruler was crowned in 1094, officials, according to custom, decreed that his predecessor's calendar had been faulty. Su Sung's 30-ft.-tall "heavenly clockwork" was abandoned. By the 17th century, it was a legend known to only a few scholars...
...knowledge of the world and himself. Now he has essayed what his book's subtitle calls "a history of heroes of the imagination." The Creators' range is impressive, from the Vedic hymns of ancient India to the modern cinema. The end result, alas, is considerably less exciting than its predecessor...
...center led an international group that monitored a successful multiparty election in Zambia. The new government is typical of a rapidly growing number of democracies in Africa that are struggling to establish free markets and new opportunities for the people despite natural disasters and treasuries robbed or wasted by predecessor regimes...