Word: prior
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Nonetheless, prior to last week's meeting the 13 OPEC countries were badly split over the level of next year's price. Libya, Algeria and Iraq demanded increases of up to 23%. Libya muttered about raising prices unilaterally or walking out of the meeting. Nigeria, Indonesia and Venezuela, badly in need of more oil income to pay for instant industrialization projects, were making weak requests for an increase of 5% or so. They argued that a boost was needed to make up for worldwide inflation and the dropping value of the dollar, which has cost them 20¢ per bbl. this...
...Harvard powers that be have just decided to allow Joe Restic and his staff to take to the road in pursuit of prospective football players. This is surprising only in that it seems implausible that Restic had been forbidden to recruit prior to this decision...
...Quakers, who are a perpetually rebuilding organization, have always had trouble scoring goals. If they manage any tonight, most likely the recipients will be either Gary Prior, Doug Berk, Dave Taylor, or Tom Whitehead, all of whom are currently tied for club scoring honors with six points apiece...
...officials were available for comment last week. Yiamouyiannis's secretary did say that directly before becoming science director of the federation, Yiamouyiannis was in business for himself making salad dressing for two years. Prior to that he edited chemical abstracts in Columbus, Ohio...
...Republican National Committee Headquarters in 1964, "I don't think it particularly would have been news." In those June days following the Watergate break-in, Nixon's top aides informed him that John Mitchell--his close friend, former U.S. Attorney General and then re-election campaign director--probably had prior knowledge of the break-in plan and Nixon asked the CIA to head off the FBI's investigation of the incident. In so doing, Price says Nixon was following fairly standard presidential practice. "When you have a political embarrassment of potentially major proportions, you try to find some...