Word: hitherto
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...Australia. In a mild spirit of compromise, the Europeans agreed to apply the tariff cuts in slow stages, postpone the final cutoff date until 1970. So far as the Common Market Six were concerned, it was a small first step, but experts now detected a new suppleness in the hitherto stiff French position. Delighted at the way things were going, Ted Heath tentatively declared that the step "has undoubtedly improved the atmosphere...
...near-final step in the same direction was reported by Baylor University's Dr. John J. Trentin, who grew highly malignant tumors in hamsters injected with adenovirus 12, which hitherto had been known to cause disease (a feverish cold, or "grippe" ) only in humans. Doubters suggested that Dr. Trentin's adenovirus might have been contaminated with SV 40. To make sure, other laboratories will repeat the Baylor experiments...
Last week Chancellor of the Exchequer Selwyn Lloyd, a man never hitherto famed for political audacity, slapped a 15% tax on candy, ice cream and soda pop. Britons, shocked to their cavities by what many soon called "the Lollipop Budget," protested that it was a "tax on children," though craving for candy knows no age limits. The government will collect $140 million a year from the sweet-tooth tax -which makes it a classic bit of budget balancing, since the government now pays exactly $140 million yearly to dentists to repair the damage...
...recent letter to the Washington Post, William B. Prendergast said, "Never before has the claim been made that the right to express any point of view is impaired if a contrary point of view is expressed. Nor has the claim hitherto been made that free speech is impaired by noting a similarity between what the speaker says and what the Soviet Union says...
...fast-moving Chambers, hitherto rated as one of Britain's ablest executives, failure to win over a majority of Courtaulds' stockholders marked a sorry setback. At his own stockholders' meeting last week, he was assailed with cries of "dictatorial" and "little Napoleon." But the businessmen of the City of London had by no means written Chambers off. Unpopular as they were, his tough tactics had won I.C.I, so big a stake in Courtaulds that many Britons believed that Courtaulds' management will ultimately feel obliged to agree to closer ties with I.C.I, in artificial-fiber production...