Word: predecessors
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...associates tell it, Bok's lawyer-like mediation skills, combined with the post-war tranquility, allowed him to meet those expectations. Administrators say that unlike his predecessor, Bok has usually proved willing to hear--if not listen to--what protestors said...
...another nail-biting week for the number crunchers at Ernst & Young. America's biggest accounting firm tentatively agreed to pay some $40 million to the Federal Government for faulty work done by a predecessor firm, Arthur Young & Co., on behalf of Charles Keating's failed Lincoln Savings. The settlement could be a bargain: it should keep Ernst from being named in a $2 billion government fraud-and-racketeering suit stemming from Lincoln's collapse...
...like his predecessor--now-Athletic Director Bill Cleary-- hard luck hit Tomassoni faster than a Mike Vukonich slap shot. And as Cleary did during the Season After, Tomassoni reduced his aims during this Season After the Season After to the modest achievement of winning home ice for the first round of the ECAC playoffs...
Lamar Alexander is used to cleaning up big messes. When he walked into the Tennessee statehouse in 1979, his first chore was to sweep up after the scandal-tainted administration of his predecessor, Ray Blanton. Last week the two-term former Governor and current president of the University of Tennessee took on another big political cleanup job. President Bush asked him to become Secretary of Education and revitalize that Cabinet post after the forced resignation earlier this month of the lackluster Lauro Cavazos. One of Alexander's first priorities, however, will be to help extricate his new boss from...
There was little of that during Cavazos' reign. Although he stumped for "choice" -- a favored Bush approach that gives parents more say over which public school their children attend -- Cavazos never became a bully pulpiteer like his predecessor, William Bennett. Cavazos was handicapped further by Bush's desultory leadership. Since the President announced six national education goals last January, he, Congress and the nation's Governors have done little but squabble over who will assess whether the goals are being met. (Among the targets: every adult must be a skilled, literate worker and citizen; every school must be drug free...