Word: prior
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This poll, however, was conducted prior to Harvard's demise in Monday night's Beanpot final with Boston University. The Terriers were ranked sixth in the poll, as a result of their 5-3 defeat to Colgate last Saturday...
...break, but why wait till then? Could not a referendum be held during the of February 3, before meatless days are instituted? What harm could come of a referendum held before the policy is effected? Holding a referendum after the fact is tantamount to a dictatorship for the months prior to that vote. Since CHUL obviously agrees that the matter merits, some sort of referendum, there can be no other explanation for its action than that it hopes undergraduates will be hulled into a state of complacency during the experimental period; when the vote finally does come, CHUL believes, resistance...
Brewster disagreed with these recommendations, stating in an addendum to the report that "It would be paternalistic at best and imply an effort at prior censorship at worst to try to talk a group out of making an invitation." He also said there would be difficulties in knowing in advance of a group's intention to invite someone...
...reasons the President's first energy program was so lackluster is that a comprehensive study?Project Independence?had not been completed prior to the message. In contrast to Richard Nixon, who liked to rush up instant cures for maximum effect, Ford prefers to analyze a problem systematically, however deliberate his pace. As the recession deepened, he continued to listen and prepare for more expansionist policies, as some of his advisers urged. To his credit, he continued to take sometimes uncongenial action against inflation. He pocket-vetoed the cargo preference bill, which would have vastly increased the price...
...statistics in this article come from the office of Peter S. McKinney, administrative dean of the GSAS. Prior to 1972, that office has no data concerning the applications-versus-admissions ratio for black graduates...