Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cocaine. And if housekeeping seemed somewhat foreign to the stiffly formal lawyer and former electric-utility executive, Sharon Pratt Dixon wasted no time carrying out her pledge. On the day after she decisively won the mayoralty of the U.S. capital, she called for the resignation of 177 of her predecessor's top city appointees...
...predecessor ordered these two colors," Maruca said of the yellow and blue books. "I assume for the reason that it is easier to count [the books]," said Maruca...
...species' fate has eternal consequences. A political appointee's vision dims beyond the next election. Matters of such gravity ought to reflect society's broadest interests. Biologists, environmentalists, theologians, historians and, yes, representatives of industry have a claim to participate in such decisions. Some in this Administration and its predecessor have criticized the Endangered Species Act and shown a willingness to subordinate biological evidence to political expediency. Such was the case with the spotted owl and the Mount Graham squirrel...
...this exotic experiment in the Tennessee pastureland just a bright spot in a gloomy picture, or does it herald real change for the manufacturer? GM chairman Robert Stempel, who succeeded Roger Smith last August, is likely to operate in ways far different from his predecessor. Smith, an autocratic manager with a purely financial background, made sweeping strategic moves that included launching Saturn and spending billions of dollars on high-tech robotics and such acquisitions as Electronic Data Systems and Hughes Aircraft. Stempel, by contrast, is an authentic "car guy." His most important attribute may be his reputation as a steadfast...
...Beanpot water polo tournament resembled its more famous predecessor, the Beanpot hockey tournament, in name only...