Word: precursor
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Thomas said her work at the Bunting Institute was a precursor to her current work on the human rights of women in the U.S., including a 347- page report she authored on sexual abuse of women in state prisons...
...Jones's great accomplishment in The Healing. The stylistic design optimally supports the narrative's broad theme of constructing a personal identity in a world bent on its destruction. At one point, Jones encapsulates this quest for self by retelling the biography of Grandmother Jaboti, Harlan's ancestral precursor in the art of identity building. Jaboti began her life not as a human but as a turtle-woman in a traveling carnival freak show, kept on display between the bearded lady and the unicorn girl. She might have lived as a convinced turtle-woman forever...
Skip and Artie met at WZOU--the precursor tocurrent rival station Jammin' 94.5--several yearsago, and later were roommates for three yearswhile working at a station in Rochester, New York.Now full-time DJ's at Kiss, the two couldn't behappier...
...explosion of "Goldeneye," the Nintendo game which has everybody from C.S. to the A.D. staying in on the weekend just to blow away the bad guys. Stepping into James' squeaky-clean shoes and kicking some evil arss is a classy way to spend an evening. Unlike its futuristic precursor "Doom," "Goldeneye" includes a final level in which James graphically seduces a Russian double agent. Haven't gotten there? Keep playing...
Webster already had the virus in his collection, its genetic structure detailed, its heritage mapped. He recalls, with obvious delight, how he told Osterhaus, "Abe, I have the precursor of this virus in my laboratory...