Word: prior
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...Prior to accepting the coaching post Allard was the assistant to the general manager at the Los Angeles Dodger organization's Vero Beach, Fla. spring training complex, known as Dodgertown...
After five years of hard labor on a farm outside Peking and 16 years of internal exile in the remote province of Xinjiang, Writer Wang Meng was officially confirmed last week as China's new Minister of Culture. Prior to his appointment, he said he did not want the position but, if chosen, would have to accept...
Mona, if that is her real name, is a woman in her late teens wandering the south of France. But she is no ordinary postadolescent backpacker, for the season is bone-chilling winter, and she is not on a voyage of self-discovery prior to beginning graduate school. She has no home, no friends and no history she cares to discuss--even with herself. Her thoughts are focused on such basic matters as food and shelter...
Strictly speaking, it was not Hands all the way Across America. There were wide gaps in many spots outside the celebrity-studded cities, even though toward the end, organizers relaxed their requirement of a prior pledge in order to swell the ranks. Some $20 million in contributions had been promised by handholding time, and though it will be weeks before the gifts can be totaled, officials still hope for their $50 million goal...
Spence said that in the future the Universitymay adopt a new policy for dealing with protestsof this sort so that similar protests "will haveto be preceded by prior understandings about theirlocation and duration...