Word: prior
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...fact, mistranslation accounts for a great share of verbal errors. The slogan "Come Alive with Pepsi" failed understandably in German when it was translated: "Come Alive out of the Grave with Pepsi." Elsewhere it was translated with more precision: "Pepsi Brings Your Ancestors Back from the Grave." In 1965, prior to a reception for Queen Elizabeth II outside Bonn, Germany's President Heinrich Ltibke, attempting an English translation of "Gleich geht es los" (It will soon begin), told the Queen: "Equal goes it loose." The Queen took the news well, but no better than the President of India...
...terms of energy produced, to those of domestic oil. But the bill that was finally passed by Congress in November 1978 was a complicated compromise between gas producers and consumers that set up 23 separate pricing categories for the fuel. All old gas-generally defined as that discovered prior to April 20, 1977-will reach a projected maximum price under controls of $1.60 to $1.90 per thousand cu. ft. in 1985. Gas discovered in subsequent years can be sold at higher prices, reaching a projected maximum of about $4.54 per thousand cu. ft. at the wellhead in 1985. From that...
Ascherman added that he hopes the event will educate some of the interested members of the University community who "need to be better informed on the issues prior to the ACSR forum...
...devoted the portion of his letter on admissions to the subject of prior grades and test scores as entrance criteria. The discussion stemmed from a request last fall from minority student organizations to clarify his stance on a controversial preliminary report on Harvard admissions, prepared by Robert E. Klitgaard '68, special assistant...
...beginning of World War II, executives in the War Production Board were not permitted to have any official relationship with their own industries. Inefficiency was rampant. The U.S. appeared to be losing the war. Then the rules were changed, and men were given responsibilities related to their prior experience. Thereafter, war production went very well, and our forces were supplied with the material required for victory...