Word: prior
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from remedial affirmative action, is by no means a glaring case of unwarranted reverse discrimination. All race-conscious hiring plans seem destined to create some backlash for white workers, and courts have repeatedly asserted that it is not unreasonable to ask whites to forego advantage they enjoy because of prior discrimination...
...Prior to Christmas vacation, a bat made a fluttering afternoon appearance in the Langdell Reading Room, before a Buildings and Grounds employee was summoned with a broom. Saturday evening, a bat once again descended upon defenseless students for approximately one hour before disappearing anonymously into the rafters...
...Tony up six years and into Manhattan, where he lands a Broadway chorus job and-are you ready?-a chance at the lead. Travolta also graduates from white acetate suits to warmup outfits that show off his director's influence better. Six days a week for four months prior to filming, he followed the rigorous training schedule that Stallone used to hone his body for Rocky...
Antonov's lawyers have demanded that their client be freed on the basis of testimony by ten Italian and Bulgarian witnesses who swear he was not in Agca's company on the day of the shooting or the two days prior to it, as Agca has claimed. This week Ilario Martella, the Italian magistrate investigating the papal plot, must come to a decision on Antonov's alibis. It may hinge on other evidence he is gathering. West Germany informed Martella last week that it had agreed to his request for the extradition of Musa Serdar Çelebi...
...spite of the pervasive economic gloom, 1982 was a banner year for savers and investors. Having suffered huge savings outflows in prior years as depositors withdrew their funds to chase after the high interest rates available from money-market mutual funds, commercial banks and savings and loan institutions were at last freed by regulators to offer federally insured free-market interest rates of their own to small savers. The result: a breathless nationwide scramble by banks everywhere to exploit their new-found freedom and snatch depositors back from the money funds...