But he cannot afford to surrender the inflation-fighting credentials that his predecessors fought so hard to win.
So Mulally is mystified that his predecessors at Ford decided to abandon the Taurus nameplate when developing the company's new family sedan.
Noting that his predecessors harmed Israel by behaving as though our international relations began and ended with negotiations with the Palestinians, Lieberman turned his attention to the great world they ignored.
Supporters of the current mayor, Rudy Giuliani, point out that the mayor has prospered precisely by eschewing the deliberate ethnic coalition-building that his predecessors indulged in, and going for sound management instead.
Obama's refusal to acknowledge his own failures make clear that his goal is different than that of his predecessors.
One of the main reasons is that like his predecessors, Netanyahu has come to believe the myth that Israel's international standing is totally dependent on its being perceived as trying to make peace with the Palestinians.
Thanks to these reforms, Mr Erdogan has secured a prize that eluded his predecessors for 40 years: the start of membership talks with the European Union.
Capello's style was immediately different from that of his predecessors.
This prompted speculation that one of his predecessors, Surayud Chulanont, was in line for the job.
He has managed to instil a discipline that evaded his laxer predecessors, awing the players and the media and banishing the WAGs.
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This can even be said of Nixon, who complained with some justice that sins of his predecessors as egregious as Watergate had been overlooked.
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His first test will be his promise to unveil, by June, a plan for the taxation of share-option gains, a matter that has vexed his predecessors.
Moreover, Mr Estrada has come to power through a reasonably open electoral process, and one that allowed his two predecessors to assume their office peacefully and democratically.
Bernanke may be making it so that he and his predecessors will have to treat every hiccup in the economy with the equivalent of a monetary Heimlich maneuver.
Capello sought to get the best out of Liverpool's influential captain and Chelsea's Frank Lampard in the same line-up, a conundrum that has dogged his predecessors in the England job.
His daredevil activities are raising his profile in a way that few of his button-down predecessors sought.
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Another, he admits, is that when one of his predecessors cracked down on smuggling, a mob burnt down the police station.
On the assumption that Mr Sarkozy would, like most of his predecessors, serve two terms in office, Mr Cope made no secret that year that he might aim for the presidency himself in 2017.
The new governor is to consider a number of alternative steps that will counter the measures of his predecessors.
At least Mr Milburn seems less reticent than his predecessors in acknowledging that hard choices about treatments are inevitable.
That marks a dramatic shift from his predecessors' hawkish tirades about not giving up one of Turkey's most valuable strategic assets.
The first point in Mr Cameron's favour is that, in contrast to his three predecessors, he is neither disliked nor thought inept.
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Despite the lessons of history, Mr Dobson is optimistic that he can cut hospital queues by targeting any extra money that comes his way better than his predecessors did.
South Korea has traditionally been the North's biggest aid supplier, but President Lee Myung-bak has taken a harder line than his predecessors, arguing that aid should be more conditional on nuclear disarmament.
Nor will the opera lobby be able to deploy against Mr Smith the charge it used so effectively against his Tory predecessors: that their reluctance to sign its cheques proved they were philistines.
And the principle of transparency that Governor Romney has been asked by my colleagues in Chicago to live up to is not one that is above and beyond what his predecessors have done.
It reminds us that the situation that we found in Haiti long before that earthquake struck called for the type of action that President Obama and several of his predecessors -- President Bush and President Clinton -- have been attuned to.
President Barack Obama, who broke the 20-year string of either a Bush or Clinton in the Oval Office, thanked his predecessors, noting that the "world's most exclusive club" acted more like "a support group" of former presidents who help each other.
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