Word: predecessor
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Royer, who won't arrive full-time at Harvard until January (after he finishes his mayoral term), says he can provide a measure of stability to the Kennedy School's "bridge to the outside world" that his predecessor couldn...
Royer, who won't arrive full-time at Harvard until January (after he finishes his mayoral term), says he can provide a measure of stability to the Kennedy School's "bridge to the outside world" that his predecessor couldn...
...imagine drug gangsters murdering both Attorney General Dick Thornburgh and his predecessor, Edwin Meese. Next, pretend that drug triggermen and guerrilla allies rub out almost half the Supreme Court -- say, Justices William Brennan, Byron White, Antonin Scalia and Sandra Day O'Connor -- along with hundreds of lower-ranking but still prominent jurists. Expand the list of victims to include Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee and Los Angeles police chief Daryl Gates, both slain, and Amy Carter, kidnaped and held briefly as a warning to authorities who might get tough with the narco-barons. And then the grand climax...
Given Bush's tendency to revere his immediate predecessor, it would not shock too many folks if the new president were actually cooking up a scandal or two right...
...Mexican accord is the first concrete result of U.S. Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady's four-month campaign to break the impasse on Third World debt by persuading commercial banks to accept some cuts in the principal or interest rates of their loans. Brady's predecessor, James Baker, whose 1985 debt plan provided for no such relief, had failed to ease the problem. With the Mexican accord in hand, Brady hopes that similar agreements between the banks and other developing countries may soon be worked...