Word: predecessor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...American president ever took pencil in hand and learned from the mistakes of his predecessor," he said. "Each American president got the country in deeper...
Ueberroth's predecessor, Bowie Kuhn, banished Detroit pitcher Denny McLain for half a year in 1970 for financing a betting shop. In 1979 and in 1983 Kuhn politely ordered casino glad-handers Willie Mays and Mickey Mantle to stay away from baseball until they quit playing golf with gamblers. To much applause, Ueberroth rescinded that ban four years ago. In the last week of his tenure (Giamatti takes office April 1), the Rose affair may make him wonder if that was such a great signal...
Former Education Secretary William J. Bennett in 1986 tagged the program "Core lite," comparing the curriculum to its Gen Ed predecessor and assailing it for not being academically rigid...
Cambridge created the post of city manager in its current form in 1965. But Councillor Francis H. Duehay '55 says it was not until Healy's predecessor James L. Sullivan assumed the post in 1977 that the office assumed its pro-development stand...
...governor's tax proposal does not go through the legislature, human services in the Commonwealth will be in shambles. We'll be back to King administration funding," Johnston said, referring to Dukakis' more conservative predecessor. "I can't believe the legislature will allow that to happen...