Word: predecessors
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Americans have a long history of prodding government to act when public health and dietary issues are at stake. Popular outrage over the Chicago meat- packing scandals, revealed in Upton Sinclair's 1906 classic, The Jungle, gave rise to both a meat-inspection law and the predecessor to the modern FDA. The discovery, during World War II, that many draftees suffered from beriberi and other vitamin B deficiencies led to the government's creation of the Recommended Dietary Allowances for vitamins and minerals...
...Bush appointee David Souter. Having written only a few rulings since joining the court this term, Souter remains something of an , enigma; yet he has clearly provided the right wing -- spearheaded by Rehnquist and Scalia -- with a crucial fifth vote in a number of important cases in which his predecessor Brennan would almost certainly have been on the opposing side...
Under Graham's predecessor, Paul N. Ylvisaker, "the school was more slanted towards broad policy research," Light says. "While [Bok] appreciated and respected it, he wasn't deeply involved...
...Webster's four-year stint at the helm of America's vast intelligence network. He had ably carried out the mandate given to him at the outset: to restore the CIA's image and accountability, both of which had been badly damaged by his predecessor, the devious and headstrong William Casey. "Webster improved relations with Congress. Internally, he established stricter rules," says David Whipple, a former senior CIA official who now heads the Association of Former Intelligence Officers. "He did his job very well...
...difference between the two studies is that the 24-Cities study examines children's physical response to air acidity, while its predecessor targeted both adults and children, said Frank E. Spiezer, professor of environmental science and project head...