Word: prior
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Summer is "the Season" in Greece, but this year it is dull. Tourism, Greece's main source of foreign exchange, is off by 50%. A decree forbidding five or more persons to assemble without prior police permission has all but killed Athens' social life. Many of the artists and troupes that were scheduled to perform at Greek festivals-including the Kiev Ballet and the Los Angeles Symphony Orchestra-have stayed away. Some of Athens' theater audiences are peppered with relatives of army officers who get free tickets to keep the attendance up. Even so, the censors...
...know from what provision of the prior law the language of this amendment was copied...
Earlier plans for a four-day conference to be held next May in Boston on essentially the same subject were cancelled because it was feared that without prior consultation delegates would not be able to reach agreement on any meaningful proposals...
...intervals, precisely timed signals from the computers would surround each aircraft with a protective electronic bubble. When one bubble touched another, the system would trigger an audio-visual alarm and possibly give the pilots a harmless electric shock. In today's jets, the warning would come 60 seconds prior to possible collision, when the aircraft were about 20 miles apart. Twenty seconds later, after electronic analysis of courses, speeds and altitudes, the sensor-computers would signal the best possible collision-avoidance maneuver each pilot should execute, such as "stop turn" or "stop climb...
...counsel, Thomas Greer, appeared before the House Committee on Agriculture in June 1965, when the farm bill was being drafted, and asked that "any farmer who wishes to grow Acala 4-42 without acreage limitation be permitted to do so, provided that prior to the advent of the growing season he waives any right to price supports for that year." Had Mr. Greer's request been heeded, the U.S. would have saved the $1,000,000 paid us, and the economy would have gained a considerable quantity of a cotton of which there is shortage rather than surplus...