Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Much of the council's first months have been spent grappling with two problems left over by its predecessor-both dealing with the city's 20-year old system of rent control. While both were finally put to rest after long procedural battles, the council has had little time to discuss new rent control initiatives...
...while change has been slow to come, CCA backers still maintain that the new majority has vastly improved on its predecessor...
...sure, Bok was a marked improvement over his predecessor, Nathan M. Pusey '28. Pusey left Harvard a controversial and highly unpopular president, notorious for calling in the police to break up a 1969 takeover of University Hall...
...that Bernie Aronson knew about Yuri Pavlov before they met last June had been gleaned from the transcripts of Pavlov's meetings with Elliott Abrams, Aronson's predecessor as State's top Latin American hand. In keeping with the nature of Soviet-American relations during the Reagan era, the Pavlov-Abrams sessions were contentious and polemical. Aronson feared he would confront a tough hard-liner -- and Pavlov felt the same way. Instead, each found a kindred spirit. If Pavlov were an American, he would probably be a liberal Democrat. The two diplomats now describe themselves as friends, and Aronson...
With a 94% turnout and 85% of the vote in elections last week, President-elect Ion Iliescu of Romania was almost in the same league as his predecessor, Nicolae Ceausescu, the Communist tyrant who posted similar landslides in pro forma balloting. But this was a free election, complete with opposition candidates and Western observers. That must have made Iliescu's victory all the sweeter, despite opposition allegations of ballot-box fraud, voter intimidation and media monopolization by his incumbent National Salvation Front...