Word: prior
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...University at first was hesitant to accept the recognition because it was worried that landmark status would restrict control of the Stadium. However, as long as Harvard does not accept federal money for the building, any renovations or additions can proceed without prior approval of the Massachusetts Historical Commission, said Kathy Spiegelman of the Harvard Planning Office...
...uterine lining to receive a fertilized egg. Because the presence of RU 486 blocks the action of progesterone, the uterine lining sloughs off, and the embryo is expelled, as an unfertilized egg is during a normal period. Although bleeding is usually heavier than during menstruation, only a pregnancy test prior to receiving the drug will tell a woman for certain whether she has actually conceived...
...Former National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane told the House Foreign Affairs Committee that Reagan gave prior approval to a shipment of U.S. arms by Israel to Iran in August 1985. That approval came at a White House session on Aug. 6 or 7, a source who was at the meeting told TIME. As part of a plan to help free U.S. hostages, the President authorized McFarlane to tell the Israelis that the U.S. would replace arms they shipped to Iran. Also at the meeting, according to this source: Regan, Poindexter (who, as McFarlane's deputy at that time, took notes...
...time prior to November 25 did the attorney general or anybody else in the Department of Justice receive a memo or have any indication orally or ortherwise that Casey had suspicions about money being diverted to the Contras," Justice Department spokesman John Russell said in a statement...
...restrictions do not stop with the press. It is now illegal for South Africans even to speak in opposition to government policy or to discuss "unrest" in a private conversation--that is, not without prior permission from a government official. Big Brother could not have imagined more thorough subversion of freedom of thought and of conscience...