One of Mr. Reed's immediate priorities is to ensure that his predecessor doesn't take the exchange for close to $60 million more.

Her predecessor, Lanny Wilcox, hadn't taken an extended leave willingly.

When the change came, our predecessors took much of the information about their relinquished nuclear weapons program with them.

His two predecessors had taken theirs from Spanish inquisitors-general but none of the names remaining seemed suitably impressive.

Its predecessor took in $87.3 million in the same period in 2002.

When he came to the project, Kelley basically began from scratch, as his predecessors had taken all plans and working drawings away with them.

His predecessor, Mr. Fernandez, took credit for cutting the administrative jobs by a third, from 5,239 to 3,481.

His predecessor took on the X-rated stuff, but ban-worthy behavior has hardly disappeared.

Inteva's three major American predecessors took multiple steps before eventually merging to form a single supplier.

They answered multiple-choice questions, as their predecessors did, but also took notes to analyze an African folk tale about kindness and then wrote several essays.