Word: prior
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most ominous question about Cambodia's future has been: When would the Hanoi-backed Khmer insurgents make their big move? Despite several weeks of concentrated assaults by American B-52s, the rebel forces had been able to move to within ten miles of the capital of Phnom-Penh prior to the deadline. Those sweeping advances suggested that the troops of Cambodian President Lon Nol, once they were denied the support of U.S. warplanes, would be hard-pressed to stave off a major enemy attack...
...while they were exercising on a treadmill and found that 10% - the same as in a group of sedentary insurance executives - showed signs of latent coronary disease. Potential heart problems were even more obvious in a group of firemen asked to jump onto the treadmill and exercise with no prior warmup. Of 60 tested, 40, or two-thirds, showed abnormal electrocardiograms...
...have confidence in the integrity of the Vice President," said Nixon, "and particularly in the performance of the duties that he has had as Vice President and as a candidate for Vice President." That seemed to leave rather large chunks of Agnew's past-indeed, his whole climb prior to becoming Nixon's running mate in 1968-for the Vice President to defend...
...With the final decision on the merger of Radcliffe and Harvard coming close, it was felt that not enough attention and money was being devoted to the Radcliffe Houses. Construction was seen as a device to upgrade the Radcliffe Quadrangle, and partially offset the emphasis placed on Harvard by prior decisions about housing and classroom facilities...
...mass murderer. Among them: chromosome irregularities, hormonal imbalances and brain damage. Charles Whitman, for instance, was found to have a brain tumor. Another mass murderer, Richard Speck, who killed eight student nurses in Chicago in 1966, suffered severe head injuries as a child. The psychiatrist who examined him prior to trial, Dr. Marvin Ziporyn, believes that he became a killer because of ensuing brain damage...