Word: predecessor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dukakis announced last week that--just as his predecessor, Francis W. Sargent, had done--he will teach at the Kennedy School of Government for the next two-and-a-half years...
Unlike its predecessor, the new report contains no previously unpublished data. Instead, its 1,200 pages summarize some 30,000 research papers issued over the past 15 years. Among the major findings...
...Dukakis comes to Harvard he would follow in the steps of his predecessor, former governor Francis W. Sargent. Sargent taught a seminar at the Institute of Politics following his defeat by Dukakis in the 1974 general election...
...General Mohammed Zia ul-Haq, who is currently trying to decide whether he can strengthen his hold on the country by executing his predecessor. He has talked a lot about holding free elections but now seems reluctant to do so. "What worries me," say a Western diplomat, "is that there is another [Colonel Muammar] Gaddafi down there, some radical major or colonel in the Pakistani army. We could wake up and find him in Zia's place one morning and believe me, Pakistan wouldn't be the only place that would be destabilized...
...same time, Washington experts agreed that U.S. Ambassador William Sullivan, like his predecessor Richard Helms, had been an uncritical fan of the Shah and had been operating without careful supervision from Washington. "He would have been happier," remarked a Washington official, "if he had received more guidance...