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the “principal” question: I looked up in “Princeton Review’s, Grammar Smart” and it said that you need the perfect present tense (have, has) when you establish a relationship of something happening in the past that affects something in the present. Since the principal question was something like “to those who listened to the principal speak, the budget cuts came as no surprise” THe past actions affect the present so you use the present perfect tense instead of the past perfect which was in the original sentence.

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<p>You use past perfect because the other event is in the past [“the budget cuts came as no surprise.”]</p>