Word: prior
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...party power in the Transvaal province, and Minister of Plural Relations overseeing government affairs with nonwhites. Despite a still simmering scandal involving financial irregularities in the Information Department that was formerly under his ministry, Mulder scored 72 votes on the first ballot, against 78 for P.W. Botha. By prior agreement, Pik Botha gave the Defense Minister the winning majority by throwing his votes...
...Prior to the agreement, there were several years of competition between MGH and the Red Cross in their blood-collecting programs," Dr. Douglas Surgenor, president of the north-east division of the Red Cross and visiting professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, said yesterday. "It was an almost hurtful competitiveness marked by practically no communication," he added...
Leaders of both parties opposed the veto and an override seemed certain but White House press secretary Jody Powell said yesterday prior to the vote that "the people will believe the president has done the right thing" regardless of the outcome...
...would like King Hussein to join. But until now, he demanded of us a prior commitment to go back to the lines of June 4, 1967, lock, stock and barrel, including Jerusalem. That wouldn't be acceptable to any party in Israel, except the Communists...
Bird's appointment was attacked from the outset because she was considered "soft" on crime and the death penalty, and because she had no prior experience as a judge. (Neither did Felix Frankfurter or Earl Warren before they sat on the U.S. Supreme Court, her defenders pointed out.) "She has a very clear mind, a good heart and strong administrative legal skills," said Governor Jerry Brown when he elevated Bird to the court from her prior post as head of the state's agriculture and services agency. "She is vindictive, snaps back and is autocratic as she can be," charges...