Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Despite the similarities to its predecessor, Burden of Proof creates a separate identity for itself. Its borrowed character, Stern, figured only in the minor role of legal mastermind in Presumed Innocent. In his recent book, Turow creates the fuller character of a man tortured by his wife's death...
...twice that amount on Sundays. He also had to report to a publisher newly appointed to oversee both the news and business operations, a combined position that Roberts vigorously opposed. The biggest challenge facing the new editor, Roberts protege Maxwell E.P. King, 46, will be to maintain his predecessor's standards of excellence in an era of belt tightening and corporate control...
...would do Kohl no harm to acknowledge a debt to a courageous and controversial predecessor. In 1969 Willy Brandt launched his Ostpolitik of reconciliation and rapprochement with the East. It was the first major sustained breakthrough of the cold war in Europe. Brandt went a long way toward allaying Soviet fears by signing a renunciation-of-force treaty with Moscow. He propitiated many of Germany's other former enemies by dropping to his knees in front of a memorial to the victims of the Warsaw ghetto. Most important, Brandt formally recognized the German Democratic Republic. He was criticized...
...native of Cleveland, he began his career at a newspaper syndicate, hand lettering the dialogue balloons in Alley Oop and other cartoon strips. He served as art director of the now defunct More magazine, a journalism review, before coming here in 1977 as deputy to Walter Bernard, his predecessor as art director. Together, Bernard and Hoglund created the design that remains the basis for TIME's look today. That design began to evolve almost immediately as editors and art directors discovered its flexibility. Technology has made that task both easier and more overwhelming. Our art directors work directly on Macintosh...
...sharp change in direction was nothing new.Indeed, each man to occupy the president's officein this century has created a University markedlydifferent from his predecessor's, Riesman says...