Word: prior
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from 107,000 to 83,000. He slashed plant capacity, in part because he believes that tire sales in the foreseeable future will not return to the levels set during the early 1970s. Reasons: radials wear much longer than bias tires, and auto production is unlikely to reach its prior peak levels...
...returned the favor twice since the Depression, in 1940-41 and 1965-66, but overall the Eli defense, not surprisingly, has been the more prodigious, leading in the shutout department, 35-25. Of course, you must remember that there have been seven 0-0 ties in the series, all prior to 1926, and that one team or both was shut out in 30 games prior to 1915. In those days, offenses didn't move, they wallowed...
Five months later, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit invalidated all prior INS proceedings. The reason: while the feuding parents had attorneys, no one represented Cindy, which the court found to be a denial of due process...
...Fonda has published his autobiography (with Howard Teichmann as his Boswell). Though disabled by serious heart disease, he still hopes to appear on Broadway next year as F.D.R.'s confidant Harry Hopkins. In her 75th year, Hepburn is magnetizing the attention of Philadelphia theatergoers in The West Side Waltz, prior to its Broadway opening next week. The play, written by On Golden Pond's Ernest Thompson, takes its own sweet three-quarter time to penetrate the twilight life of a Manhattan widow, but Hepburn triumphantly skirts sentimentality, displaying her radiance even as her character limps, hobbles and crawls toward accommodation...
...youngest sister Babe Botrelle (Mia Dillon) has reached full immaturity. She is out on bail after having shot her husband in the stomach and very nearly killing him. Asked why she did it, Babe replies, "I didn't like his looks." Prior to the attempted murder, Babe had been carrying on an affair with a 15-year-old black boy. Asked to explain that, Babe answers, "I was so lonely and he was gooood...