Word: precursor
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Academics also played a big role in his life as Jewett graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa after writing a thesis on diplomatic history. His topic was negotiations among the great powers in the 1890s. Jewett received additional diplomatic education from his work on the precursor of the model...
...Squirrelbait's chief appeal lies in their dissemblage of traditional rock music through volume and intensity, where (if you care to think about it) Husker Du's original and only appeal also lay. In fact, despite an atrocious sense of grammar and punctuation, Squirrelbait is better than their precursor because their sound is not burdened with the Husker's tendency towards artistic pretension and lyrical sappiness...
...analyses, partly by creating a better balance between the Company's capabilities in ELINT (electronic intelligence gathering) and HUMINT (human intelligence gathering, meaning spies and informers), which had been given short shrift. Having been a World War II operative for the old Office of Strategic Services (the CIA's precursor), Casey has retained a fondness for covert activities, and his reputation and elan have made him a hero within the agency. Yet the high morale at the CIA is in danger of evaporating as Iranscam unravels. Says one friend: "Everything that Bill Casey has achieved could be destroyed...
...became aware that a new era under the sea was dawning in 1954, when National Geographic published an article titled "Fish Men Discover a 2,200-year-old Greek Ship." The author was a Frenchman named Jacques-Yves Cousteau, who in 1943 had helped to invent the Aqualung--the precursor of self-contained underwater breathing apparatus (scuba)--and used it to excavate a vessel at the bottom of the Mediterranean near the island of Grand Congloue. "That opened the door to underwater exploration for the modern day," says Wilbur Garrett, editor of National Geographic, the venerable publication of the National...
Fish sees the International Junior Squash Exchange Program not as a one-time deal, but rather as a precursor to bigger and better things in the future. He hopes to eventually attract players from developing nations and from countries who are just now developing squash programs like China...