Word: prior
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year after the controversy, few House Masters say they have done more to attract freshmen than hold the usual number of parties and events during the two-week Open House period prior to the housing lottery...
...occasion during the 10 months or so prior to the Israeli invasion on which Palestinian gunners had fired across the border had been preceded by an Israeli air attack on the Palestinian camps of Rashidiye which claimed some 15 lives. The Israeli attack was spurred, it was said, by the deaths of two Israeli officers, which occurred when the jeep in which they were traveling ran over a land mine--in South Lebanon. The Palestinian retaliatory shelling had been intentionally directed into agricultural fields in afterwork hours. The Palestinian deliberate decision not to inflict casualties, and their clear desire...
...largely oblivious to the match's importance prior to that afternoon. Not that it was difficult to keep abreast of what was happening. During the playing of the Brazil game the city of Milan--like cities all over Italy--shut down. Traffic came to a halt, workers stopped working, and the nation's eyes and cars stayed glued to T.V. sets and radios...
Good reasons for deep concern were present. First, of all major nations, Germany is perhaps the most polled, probed, poked, and questionnaired. In recent months, several leading polls prior to local state elections had proved significantly in error. Now, in this national election, few people trusted poll predictions. Second, with 10.4 percent of the German labor force unemployed and a new high in business bankruptcies, a number of wildcards had been introduced into the political game and upset many players who still recalled with dismay the disastrous political consequences of the 1929 economic depression. Third, the unprecedented appearance of three...
...Industrial growth may reach no more than one-quarter of 1% in 1983. The combined federal, state and municipal government budget deficit for 1983 is projected to exceed $31 billion. Vogel had promised to cancel all the austerity measures that Kohl had taken during his five months as Chancellor prior to the election. Kohl's belt-tightening gospel was undoubtedly unpopular, but Vogel's vow to return to freer spending of dwindling government resources apparently turned out to be an unsatisfactory proposition for most voters. The newly mandated Chancellor is expected to cut where he can, weather...