Word: prior
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carter believes the days of springing decisions on the public without prior warning are over. "I think it's accurate to say," he noted of an accord Gerald Ford had made with the Soviets in 1974, "that when the Vladivostok agreement was reached there was almost a dearth of news about the negotiations. Only when the final agreement was signed was it revealed. All of a sudden you had an accomplished fact. Negotiating points were never understood by the American public or the Congress...
...little for the economy and benefit mainly wealthy investors. Though the White House would now be grudgingly content to see the tax remain at its present maximum effective rate of 49%, the Steiger amendment seeks to cut the rate to no more than 25%, the level that prevailed prior to 1970. The bill was introduced in April by Wisconsin Republican William Steiger, who has attracted broad support with his argument that a lower rate would benefit everyone by stimulating the stock market and boosting capital investment, thereby creating jobs...
...point. Gustavo Curtis, the former chief of Beatrice Foods in Colombia who was held by terrorists for eight months, is suing his company for $185 million. His complaint: though the firm had had prior indications that he would be a terrorist target, Beatrice Foods treated his disappearance as a hoax at first, then dawdled over negotiating his release, condemning him and his family to a long, anxiety-laden ordeal...
...ingenious scheme: they proposed the use of two separate but mathematically related keys-one for encoding a message, the other for decoding it. Thus if a group of intelligence agents or businessmen wanted to communicate secretly with one another, they would not have to send a new key prior to each message. On the contrary, the encrypting key could well be made public in a handbook like a telephone directory. In that way, someone who wanted to communicate with the group would simply look up the necessary key and use it to encode a message. Yet even if someone could...
...Race recaptured the epic proportions of yesterday, with renewed spectator interest fueled by the revitalization of the Yale rowing program. Prior to the Sprints, Parker & Company had not lost to the Elis in 15 years. There had even been talk of cancelling the annual four-mile endurance test due to lack of interest and the academic exam timetable...