Word: hitherto
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...APPEARANCE OF the Student Council questionnaire officially opens the long-expected investigation into the subject of private tutoring schools. Hitherto the whole subject has been treated with a sort of hush-hush secrecy, as if the famed "cram" parlors were sacrosanct pillars of Harvard society and above the taint of investigation or suspicion. With the enrollment lists these institutions growing steadily each year and with an annual scandal involving similarity of term themes among habitues, both the University and the Council have chosen a splendid occasion to launch this new drive against what may in time become a distinct detriment...
...necessarily mean the Veecks will sign Henderson; merely that as last season's last-place team, they have the right to kick off the action. The rumor is the bidding will open at a record-high level for a single player, $57, and top out somewhere at a hitherto unthinkable $70, more than a quarter of a team's entire budget. The view around the league is that the Amaros, the preseason favorite with a formidable squad of returning wall bangers, need only to sign Henderson to have a nearly preemptive claim on the pennant...
...York Times: SOVIET TURNS A BIG CORNER -- RELEASE OF DISSIDENTS MORE THAN A GESTURE. Taubman found in Sakharov's release not only Gorbachev's desire to soften international opinion but also his need to win over the Soviet intellectuals, a view increasingly held by Kremlinologists. Now that the hitherto heavy-handed Soviets have become slicker at manipulating opinion, it takes a little time to recognize that a package so wrapped in public relations may still have a kernel of truth inside...
...quark, a basic building block of matter that is predicted by theory but that other scientists believe still remains undiscovered. In the second, his team's experiments picked up the signs of what would become known as monojets; Rubbia boldly theorized that the monojets might signal a hitherto undetected particle. If so, Rubbia would have his second Nobel-class discovery within two years. A discovery of this importance was so tempting, according to Taubes, that Rubbia wrote a paper on the apparent finding, rushed it to the journal Physics Letters before more than a ; small fraction of his team members...
...many doctors that fetal-cell surgery could soon become an important medical tool. In the People's Republic of China, physicians have used fetal-cell implants to treat diabetics. In Sweden, researchers have performed fetal-brain-cell transplants to rid rats of Parkinson's disease, a progressive and hitherto incurable neural disorder. In the U.S. and elsewhere, fetal-cell experiments with animals have shown promise of treatments for a host of other human disorders, ranging from blood diseases like thalassemia to paralysis caused by spinal-cord damage. Says Neurosurgeon Barth Green of the University of Miami: "This field...