Word: prior
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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These firms are enthusiastic about the program because it has been successful in transforming specialist executives into general administrators. Most of the men who come to the A.M.P. arrive prior to assuming more general responsibilities...
These firms are enthusiastic about the program because it has been successful in transforming specialist executives into general administrators. Most of the men who come to the A.M.P. arrive prior to assuming more general responsibilities...
...sometimes supposed that the citizen has discharged his political obligations when he has voted, and that he deserves special credit if he drives somebody else to the polls. But voting is the least arduous of a citizen's duties. He has the prior and harder duty of making up his mind. As election day approaches he has to decide how to vote, and in season and out he has to decide what to think. His private opinion, when put together with the opinions of others like him, is public opinion; and public opinion is the ultimate force which, in America...
...years prior to 1948, most of the freshmen intra-mural attention was focused on basketball, but last year hall teams were organized in touch football, basketball, volleyball, and softball. Tournaments were held in cross country, squash, boxing, wrestling, fencing, swimming, tennis, rowing, and track...
...Fight Begins. As such, if the agreement proves to be legally watertight, she would replace the seven Hearst executives who were made the voting trustees in a prior agreement signed in 1937. In her own right, she owns only 30,000 shares (15%) of the Hearst Corp.'s preferred stock. But she would have the voting rights to all 100,000 shares of the common and the remaining 170,000 (85%) of the preferred, which old W.R. himself owned. She would thus have the power to choose all the officers and directors of the subsidiary corporations...