Word: prior
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Faced with a case of the government exercising prior restraint, the press rushed to the defense of its first principles, attacking White's decision. Paradoxically, in this knee-jerk reaction, the press also forgot some of its first principles, for White was articulating a defense of autonomous control by newspaper owners, while Brennan hinted at an interpretation which would undermine the autonomy of the owners...
Moses goes on to state that "a solution to the situation on the West Bank must come from Israel, regardless of Arab intentions..." The fact is, that when the West Bank and Gaza were Jordanian and Egyptian hands, prior to 1967, the Arab refugees were kept in squalid camps, treated as animals by their own people, and used as expendables in implementing terrorist attacks against Israel. How can Israel disregard the intentions of those committed to its complete destruction...
Tensions over the development of the X-ray laser might have remained behind closed doors if Woodruff had not been demoted by Livermore Director Roger Batzel in what Woodruff claims was retaliation for trying to put a lid on Teller. Prior to his transfer, Woodruff was responsible for proposed SDI weapons like the X-ray laser, a device that was supposed to channel the intense X rays from a nuclear bomb into a beam of radiation. In theory, the X rays would be capable of destroying enemy ICBMs in mid-flight. But tests showed that although such devices work...
Carter said he did not know how long the investigation by the FBI and INSCOM had been going on prior to the arrest...
When he finished playing 18 holes at Killarney on the morning of Black Monday, it was two hours prior to the opening of the New York Stock Exchange because of the five-hour transatlantic time difference. Lynch called up his traders with sell orders, since the wave of redemption requests had swelled over the weekend. On his list of stocks to be dropped: Abbott Laboratories, Amoco, Capital Cities/ABC and many more. Then Lynch traveled to the small coastal town of Dingle and checked in at the Sceilig Hotel just before 2:30 p.m., as the 9:30 a.m. starting bell...