Word: prior
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Morans have been free on their own recognizance since they pleaded not guilty to the charges on December 10. Zobel ordered them not to leave the state without the court's prior permission...
...busy as George Bush is these days, when two prior occupants of the Oval Office ask for an audience it would be impolitic to turn them down. Thus last week former Presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter got 50 minutes of the President-elect's time to present the gist of a two-volume American Agenda report produced by a bipartisan staff of more than 300 experts and former Government officials. The message: reduce the budget deficit by $40 billion a year for the next four years, abandon the idea of a Star Wars defense that could totally shield...
...example, Guo says that prior to the trip, he had absolutely no experience riding a bicycle. "I had only ridden a three-speed bike in Singapore when I was young, and I had to learn from scratch," he says. Guo became involved with Bike-Aid when he was asked to develop an ODN package to educate the riders about the issues. "After writing the package and thinking so much about what it meant, I decided I had to go on the ride to see how the knowledge was actually used," he says...
...battle for definition needs to be fought over more than the words "liberal" and "conservative." Many terms and expressions used as part of the common American political dialogue contain a prior subjective definition which skews their meaning automatically to the right. During the next four years, the right wing will continue to hold the language of politics hostage. The following is a glossary of the continuing political re-definitions of some old words...
...keener obstruction to Bhutto's authority may be the traditional attitudes of Pakistan's Islamic people. Not all are eager to live under the first Muslim government headed by a woman. In the days prior to the election, 40 mullahs issued a fatwa, or religious verdict, warning that a nation headed by a woman cannot prosper and risks falling "into the pit of Western cultural degeneration...