Word: hitherto
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...share of the world's oil market has dwindled, from 56% in 1973 to 33% today, so has the group's control over prices. OPEC has tried to persuade its increasingly productive rivals to limit their output, but they have nonetheless pumped freely and helped swamp the market. They hitherto saw no reason to cooperate with OPEC, since several of the group's members were cheating on production quotas anyway...
They soon found out. Moving swiftly on Noriega's behalf, the National Assembly met in an emergency 1:15 a.m. session. In a ten-minute gathering attended by 38 of the body's 67 lawmakers, members voted unanimously to dismiss Delvalle, hitherto regarded as a Noriega puppet, and Vice President Roderick Esquivel. Though Delvalle insisted that he still held office, Education Minister Manuel Solis Palma, 71, was sworn in as President before dawn. Panama's military leaders left no doubt as to where they stood. Colonel Marcos Justines, whom Delvalle had named to succeed Noriega as chief of the Panamanian...
...earn a profit or go out of business. Those elements of capitalist-style risk taking are frighteningly foreign to managers accustomed to relying on Moscow's central planners for virtually all business decisions. If employees of successful enterprises can anticipate increased bonuses and shared profits, others face the hitherto unknown prospect of plant closures and severe job dislocations...
Some editors feared that the media's pursuit of Hart's private life might become as much an issue as his adulteries. As Hart put it in a speech at Yale, "How far are we prepared to go as a society to peek into areas hitherto precluded...
...messages. Those rules, which many porn services ignore, seek to make it necessary for callers to use a credit card or a special access code. The targeted California companies could eventually face fines of up to $50,000 a day and criminal prosecution. Critics charge that antiregulatory zeal has hitherto led the FCC to take a laissez-faire approach to phone porn. "This signifies that the commission will enforce the rules it has adopted," says FCC General Counsel Diane Killory. This month the Senate adopted a provision that would ban the services. It now goes to the House of Representatives...