Word: prior
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...other business, the Council adopted an order proposed by Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci inviting Soviet world chess champion Gary Kasparov to Cambridge for the city's second annual chess tournament later this month. The champion will be in North America prior to the tournament on a visit to New Brunswick, Canada...
...million, six-year U.S. study, conducted by Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, covered 22,071 male physicians, ages 40 to 84, with no ) history of prior heart disease or stroke, for an average of 4.8 years. Half the group took a 325-mg tablet of aspirin every other day, the lowest dose the researchers considered both safe and effective; the other half received a placebo. This past December a board of medical experts monitoring the study decided that the results were "sufficiently compelling," as Yale Cardiologist Lawrence Cohen put it, to interrupt the study...
Some of the show's lures are known commodities: Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber (Cats, Jesus Christ Superstar) and Director Harold Prince (Cabaret, Follies) have mounted some of the flashiest spectaculars of recent years, including their prior collaboration, Evita. Practically everyone, it seems, has seen a movie version of Phantom, although few have read Gaston Leroux's turgid 1910 thriller about the hideously misshapen genius who constitutes himself the shadow ruler of the Paris Opera House and, upon becoming infatuated with a chorine, maneuvers her career from afar. The beauty-and-the- beast theme and subterranean wonderland setting echo the myths...
...NOTEBOOK: Kevan Melrose made his first appearance as a defenseman, taking Brian Popiel's place...Weisbrod played in the a Crimson JV game Wednesday to get ready for his varsity return. He had been skating for a week prior to his JV cameo...John Devin will be in the nets for Harvard tonight, when the Crimson takes on Princeton...
While interviewing government contacts in nations known for their hostility toward American interests is never a simple matter, Mylroie reports that Iraqi officials gave her easy access to government sources since her prior research had come out in support of Iraq. "I know their friendship was due to my friendship," Mylroie says. "If my position changed, there would be no more visas to Iraq." This is a common policy folled by many "illiberal regimes" all over the world, according to Mylroie...