Word: prior
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carter's freeze on Iranian assets one day before it was due. Some Europeans now charge that the U.S. banks are acting as mercenary scouts of the Carter Administration in its campaign against Iran and that they have stopped playing the banking game under the gentlemanly rules of prior consultation...
Norman S. Zalkind, Easterling's attorney, said prior to the sentencing yesterday, "We have the automatic right to have the case reviewed, and we will." He added that he would protest McGuire's final instructions to the jury in the appeal...
...Inside the High Court" [Nov. 5] leaves me with the feeling that perhaps our present system of allowing the President to appoint a Chief Justice for life should be scrapped. If the President appointed the Justices, but allowed them to select their own Chief to preside over the court prior to the opening of each new session, it would at least allow the Justices to work under leadership that the majority considered competent...
Ingmar Bergman's Magic Flute, always cited as the best-realized opera film prior to Don Giovanni, neatly sidestepped all the conceptual problems of the hybrid genre--it pretended to be a filmed record of a performance in a provincial opera house, with shots of the audience thrown in to be sure you understood the universality of Mozart's message. Losey never wavers from his no-holds-barred outdoors staging, using the Palladio villas near Vicenza as an occasional refuge from the bright sun that over-exposes many of the scenes...
Donald Hamilton, the State Department spokesman, said the government does not believe the publication of Swift's name, prior to the release of the 13 hostages prompted the Iranians to continue holding Swift...