Word: prior
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Restic doesn't know how much his young team can absorb in the short preseason camp since most players have had little or no prior exposure to the flex. He's unsure how many different sets the team will be able to use. "We've got to do more things because we're small," he said. Then Restic added, "But can we do more things...
...registration drive in a broader context, linking it to the traditional civics and government courses required in the schools. Detroit Superintendent of Schools Arthur Jefferson plans to invite elected officials and local experts on housing and energy to talk to students. "I want to give the kids substantive information prior to the 1980 election," he says. "I want to sensitize them to the political process and the issues so they will be so hyped up they will want to vote...
Some sentences should vary, of course, according to the character and prior record of the defendant. The fact that shoplifters usually go to jail if they get caught in Charlotte, N.C., whereas they get probation in Albuquerque, may just reflect different local mores. As New York Criminal Court Judge Harold Rothwax says, "Communities have a right to view crime differently." Mandatory sentences set by the legislature, which several states use for at least some crimes, can be more heavy-handed than evenhanded. Such laws cannot distinguish, for instance, between someone who steals to feed his family and someone who steals...
...swamped staff of just twelve field workers is assigned to monitor aid and assist in resettlement. At least 40,000 of the inhabitants have been in the camps for three years or more because they do not qualify for resettlement; usually, that means they do not have a "prior link" with a resettlement country, such as having relatives there. The despair among the non-qualifiers can run deep. At one Thai camp two weeks ago, seven members of a Laotian hill tribe attempted suicide by jumping into a river because they had no resettlement prospects and feared they would...
...personal motto was Semper idem (always the same) and he lived up to it with matchless rigor. Prior to the liberalizing Second Vatican Council, Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani was one of the most feared and powerful princes of the Roman Catholic world. His authority as a ranking doctrinal watchdog came from his influence within the Holy Office. Ottaviani was half blind but, the Vatican saying went, "sees more with one eye than most see with two." Armed with a steely mind and consummate dedication, he became in his own word, a "carabiniere" (policeman) of orthodoxy. Even after the windows...