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Another theory is that being Governor just wasn't much fun anymore. During his first two terms, from 1972 to 1980, Edwards was able to duplicate a populist strategy of his fabled predecessor Huey Long: tax the thriving oil and gas companies to fund generous patronage and state programs, much of it to the benefit of his coalition of poorer whites, French-speaking Cajuns and blacks. When oil prices took a dive in the mid-'80s, the good times stopped rolling. Edwards "was a sort of perpetual Santa Claus," says Ed Renwick, a professor of political science at Loyola University...
Women's Volleyball Coach Jennifer Bates, for example, got a fulltime position and the opportunity to devote all of her energies to the team. Her predecessor, Wayne Lem, had to run a business while he coached "part-time...
Steen knows, however, that more Harvard moneyis necessary to get what he wants: a "ubiquitousnetwork" comprised of several top-of-the-linecomputers. But to secure big dollars, the newdirector will have to do a better job lobbyingthan his predecessor...
Persis Ladd Herold '44 left Radcliffe aftergraduation to work for the Office of StrategicServices (OSS), the predecessor of the CentralIntelligence Agency...
...subjects of the experiments would likelyqualify for federal compensation because thelicenses to use the radioactive isotopes in manyof the tests came from the Atomic EnergyCommission, a predecessor of the EnergyDepartment...