Word: prior
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tempered this by cautioning that "it is not fair to overly criticize" Begin because prior Israeli governments had done similar things. Meanwhile, 20 Arab states demanded a U.N. investigation. Begin retorted that "we stand on the right of Jews to li ve in any part of the land of Israel" ? which in his view includes the West Bank...
...proposes that no student can declare his independence unless his parents have not claimed him as a tax deduction for two years; further, he may live at home for only six weeks during the year he receives aid as well as the year prior to his grant. HEW hopes that the new rules will shake loose more federal money for students who really need it-unless, of course, middle-income taxpayers start planning even farther ahead and farm the kids out to live with the relatives...
...Harvard Summer School is a throwback to an earlier era. Prior to World War II, undergraduate admissions requirements had not yet reached the intensely competitive level it took on during Harvard's post-war democratization and transformation into a semi-meritocracy...
...G.O.P. National Chairman William Brock: "A tragic error." Declared California Congressman Robert Dornan: "They're breaking out the vodka and caviar in Moscow." Republican House Leader John Rhodes of Arizona accused Carter of giving the House "a rather gratuitous slap in the face" by not announcing his decision prior to its vote on the B-1 funds. Only 48 hours before Carter dropped his bombshell, the House had beaten back, by a vote of 243 to 178, an amendment to delete from the defense budget $1.5 billion for production of five...
...Actor (Brian Bedford) and The Actress (Maggie Smith) feel that the statute of limitations may be running out on their restively argumentative marriage. They have been married only six months. Apart from being dogged by a creditor (Richard Whelan), the husband has the jitters. He knows that prior to the marriage his wife had had nine liaisons and that each affair lasted exactly six months. Madly in love with her, the husband decides to put his wife's devotion to the test. He will try to seduce her in the guise of a Russian soldier-prince...