Word: predecessors
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...argued that in many respects the new Prime Minister was doing rather well. Northern Ireland was quieter, and last week the Ulster government banned all processions for six months, reducing the likelihood of renewed rioting. Maintaining his reputation as a superb administrator and delegator of authority, Heath cut his predecessor's swollen ministerial list, reducing the Cabinet from 21 to 18 and top non-Cabinet posts from 78 to 66. He also ordered a searching systems analysis of Whitehall's decision-making machinery, using top management experts recruited from private business. With care, he began charting measures...
Some Finns complain that Kekkonen, unlike his predecessor J.K. Paasikivi, is unnecessarily obsequious to the Soviets. "Paasikivi waited for the Russians to ask," grumbles one of the President's critics. "Kekkonen goes to the Russians and offers." His reasons are all too obvious. Finland has a population of only 4,700,000 (v. the Soviet Union's 240 million) and shares 788 miles of its 1,583-mile frontier with the Soviet Union. The Finns have been at war with Russia, both under Sweden's suzerainty and on their own, for a total of 90 years...
Twice rebuffed, Sachs retired and turned the case over to George Beall, his Republican replacement. Beall proved as determined as his predecessor. He told Mitchell that he agreed with Sachs and sought permission to prosecute. Mitchell remained unmoved; his reluctance was both practical and political. Some Justice Department officials felt that there was insufficient evidence to prove the charges against Frenkil. Nor were they enthusiastic about prosecuting public officials on a "one on one" basis, relying on the uncorroborated testimony of a single witness, former Brewster aide John Sullivan, to prove the key points of the prosecution in the case...
...whites. For an Administration widely thought to be wedded to a "Southern strategy," the new hardline tactics add up to a welcome drive to end de jure segregation in the South. Elliot Richardson, sworn in last week as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, and Robert Finch, his predecessor, have vowed publicly that by the time Southern schools reopen in the fall, the great majority of school districts will be desegregated. That prediction now seems sound...
...manage to curb Argentina's dangerous inflation, which dropped from 26.7% in 1966 to 6.5% last year. He won the gratitude of foreign businessmen by allowing repatriation of profits and by inviting the return of foreign oil companies whose exploration contracts had been canceled by his civilian predecessor, President Arturo Umberto Illia...