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Unlike his predecessor, the late Cardinal Humberto Madeiros, who took over an archdiocese plagued with a debt of over $50 million. Law will be spared from any major financial troubles and free to face the more serious issues of poverty and women's rights...
...Union. Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov confounded such predictions when he assumed control of the country's Communist Party in November 1982. Within seven months, Andropov had also secured the important title of Chairman of the Defense Council and been elected President of the Soviet Union. It had taken his predecessor, Leonid Brezhnev, 13 years to accumulate all the same trappings of power. The new Soviet leader, it seemed, was a man in a hurry...
Johnson succeeds Saul L. Chafin. widely credited as one of the most successful Harvard Police chiefs ever for his generally successful efforts in rebuilding department morale after the troubled tenure of his predecessor. David L. Gorski Gorski become unpopular. current officers say. for what they call arbitrary decisions and an officers that made dialogue difficult...
Spence will learn the ins and outs of his new job by meeting regularly with his predecessor over the next few months. Rosovsky said he would review all the departments, appointment procedures, the budget, and the problems of graduate and undergraduate education with Spence...
...Aren't there other elements in this business of your being perceived as reckless overseas? We do have troops in Lebanon, and you have been much tougher than your immediate predecessor, at least in foreign affairs...