Word: prior
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Bird herself had called for the investigation last Nov. 24. A liberal 43-year-old activist with no prior judicial experience, she had been opposed by law-and-order conservatives and some of the legal establishment ever since her surprise appointment in 1977 by Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. By last November, under the pressure of allegations of political maneuvering by the court, she decided that something had to be done to restore confidence in the state's highest tribunal...
Stressing that the findings were only preliminary, Charles H. Henneken, assistant professor of Medicine, said he plans a more extensive study of the effects of "psycho-social" variables in producing heart attacks in elderly men. Coffee consumption, obesity, cigarette smoking, high blood pressure, prior heart disorder and high cholesterol counts are all common risk factors, Henneken added...
Henry F. Owens III, Allen's attorney, said "prior crimes are not admissible as evidence unless there are some extenuating circumstances," adding that Mundy was trying to "prejudice the minds of the jurors...
...issued guidelines last year prohibiting faculty from working for intelligence agencies without prior approval...
What would force the committee to meet? Bok suggests that if "we wanted to make some substantial change in Radcliffe buildings," he would call a meeting of the Joint Policy Committee. But nothing has come up. The South House dining hall received approval prior to May 1977, Wolfman says, and the Radcliffe Quadrangle Recreational Athletic Center is on property not under the committee's jurisdiction...