Word: prior
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...obvious that this proposal has not been thought through adequately. Prior to the Reykjavik summit, the Joint Chiefs of Staff were not asked to study the implications of the President's proposal for a total elimination within ten years of all ballistic missiles, let alone to consider the elimination of all strategic arms. I am relieved that the superpowers did not reach an agreement along these lines. I think we must act immediately to pull our zero-ballistic-missile proposal off the table before the Soviets accept it. A fundamental review of the Administration's position on these matters...
...three were cited for developing methods that have revealed the most basic mechanisms of chemical reactions. To construct theories of what happens when chemicals react, scientists, prior to the laureates' work, had only sketchy evidence: the chemical products and the amount of energy produced or consumed by the end of a multistep reaction. But these observations gave information only about the net effect on millions of molecules; the changes that occur to individual molecules at each step stayed a mystery...
...nearest-run thing you ever saw." So remarked the Duke of Wellington after Waterloo. That might be the reaction in the West to the atmosphere of carefree utopianism that prevailed at Reykjavik prior to the summit's collapse. In that seductive environment, the President proposed the elimination of all ballistic missiles by 1996, and for much of last week he and others fostered the impression that they had agreed to a Soviet counterproposal to eliminate all "strategic offensive arms" by then...
...vision of a "world without nuclear weapons," but has he seriously examined the consequences? What do the Joint Chiefs have to say about a world in which the nuclear deterrent has been removed? Indeed, how do our allies feel about the initiative taken at the summit without any prior consultation...
...legislator can be arrested for comments made in the Assembly without the consent of that body. But the government, backed by ruling-party legislators, contended that Yoo's distribution of the pro-Communist speech prior to its delivery on the floor was a violation of the National Security Law. If convicted, Yoo faces up to seven years in prison...