Word: prior
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...some 2.5 million Italians from the ages of 18 to 21, enfranchised only in March, will be voting for the first time, and a large number are expected to mark their ballots beside the hammer-and-sickle symbol of the Partito Comunista Italiano; 2) the polls were taken prior to the elections in Portugal and Communist efforts there to override the results of the balloting...
Jackson said that when she spoke to Carlagna prior to her audition he failed to tell her that the "appropriateness" of her theme to the occasion would be a criteria for selection...
...America of the Arab-Israel conflict." He did not say specifically who got that money. Meanwhile, Exxon and Mobil Oil acknowledged last week that they had also made gifts, which they insisted were legal, to political parties in Canada and Italy. For Gulf, there was one painful irony. Prior to Dorsey's Senate testimony, the speculation had been that most of the company's contributions had gone to Latin America. Last week the leftist military in Peru nationalized $2 million worth of Gulf service stations, accusing the company of "notorious, immoral conduct"-presumably meaning interference in Peruvian politics...
Yale managed to put a "#2" after the "R" on the tower just prior to the race; when the Elis left the dock on their painting expedition, Huntsman slyly repainted the official's boat with a black "R", By racetime (8 p.m.), the rock and the boat were still black. Moreover, the Radcliffe colors still showed through the hastily-covered blue and white dock...
...Strip-mined land must be returned to its "approximate original contour" and restored to a condition capable of supporting whatever uses it had prior to mining (farming, grazing, recreation). Operators are responsible for revegetating the land, as well as for replenishing the quantity and quality of local water resources...