1.   Aides had said Albright would not try to duplicate the time-consuming shuttle diplomacy that had her predecessors flying around the Middle East.

2.   But even this book had a predecessor.

3.   But she obviously had her predecessor in mind when she was asked last fall if she would ever write a book.

4.   Green benefits from having no predecessor as public advocate to be compared with and from never having had to address issues unpopular with voters.

5.   Immelt does not have his predecessor looking over his shoulder.

6.   She cast a wide net, filing cases in far greater numbers than had her predecessors in the Reagan and Bush administrations.

7.   The cogniscenti of this particular generation tend to mock Vivaldi, but he will survive them as he has their predecessors.

8.   New syndromes crop up periodically, and some appear to have predecessors.