Word: prior
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THERE IS NO doubt that cigarette smoking has become a lot less popular since it has been recognized as a serious health hazard. Tobacco companies made a lot of money when people thought it was perfectly safe to smoke a pack or two a day. But prior to the Surgeon General's report cigarette smokers did not choose to begin using an addictive and deadly drug; they chose to use a product that was advertised as being entirely harmless. If tobacco companies made an honest mistake about the health effects of cigarettes, no one can blame them. But if they...
...entrusting the CUE Guide to Harvard's student government, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences would prevent similar episodes from happening in the future. By retaining an influence over the book's content, the faculty would perpetuate the possibility of counterproductive constraints and prior restraint...
Others point to the signing of the 47-year-old Berndt to explain how a program that compiled a 1-18 mark in the two years prior to his arrival has won three consecutive Ivy League championships and is currently closing in on a fourth...
...wife's suggestion that he abandon his 30-year preoccupation with exposing the circumstances surrounding his mother Eleni's wrongful trial and death during the 1948 purges in Greece. Haunted by the memory of his mother being taken to a People's Democratic Army work camp just prior to his successful escape from Greece at the age of 9, Gage is determined to bring his mother's assassins to justice before the 30-year statute of limitations on war crimes runs...
...reports not been mailed, suggested Master Bossert of Lowell House, students would have thought that there had been a cover-up. Yet it is clear that, prior to the mailing, most students who were interested in obtaining copies of the reports would have been able to do so. Furthermore, the reports were given extensive publicity in The Crimson...