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...local resident and a successful business professional, Smith's special strengths neatly match those of his predecessor...
Leaders from the Continent criticize Britain as being out of step with the rest of the EC. But everyone recognizes that at the end of the day Prime Minister John Major will shake his partners' hands, whereas his predecessor was far more likely to beat them about the head. The conciliatory Major will reach some agreement, and probably a fairly wide-sweeping one, with the rest of the EC at Maastricht...
Gaskell said yesterday that because he has no predecessor, the full responsibilities of his job are not fully defined. "I've got to start a new department from scratch," he said...
...party. Despite mounting evidence, party officials deny that even one ruble has been squirreled away in foreign banks. But a string of mysterious suicides casts doubt on such disavowals. Five days after the coup fizzled, party treasurer Nikolai Kruchina threw himself out a window. Six weeks later, his predecessor, Georgi Pavlov, fell to his death the same way. And two weeks ago, Dmitri Lisovolik, former deputy chief of the party's international department, also leaped out a window several weeks after investigators found $600,000 in U.S. dollars in the office of Lisovolik's boss, Valentin Falin, at Central Committee...
...multimedia still lacks what computer companies call the "killer application," a program like the electronic spreadsheet or the word processor that is so compelling that consumers will buy a new device just to run it. As Marshall McLuhan pointed out, every new medium takes its content from its predecessor: early films were simply recorded stage plays; the first TV shows were converted radio dramas. The same is probably true of this newest medium, which represents the merger of all its predecessors. At the moment, interactive multimedia is a powerful tool whose best uses remain on the horizon...