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Word: prior (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...inability to score goals has plagued the Crimson (now 5-7-3 overall, 2-1-1 Ivy) all year--prior to yesterday's contest, the squad had amassed a total of just nine goals. Meanwhile, the Bulldogs had tallied just seven times...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, | Title: Booters Bite Bulldogs, 3-0; Preserve Ivy Title Hopes | 10/30/1985 | See Source »

...Prior to the trip, passengers will have to go through a three-day orientation and training program at a luxurious resort complex near the launch...

Author: By Mark R. Hoffenberg, | Title: Tired of Sun 'n Surf? Try a Space Vacation | 10/29/1985 | See Source »

...Prior to the contest, the biggest question about the young Harvard squad was whether its offense would regain the potency it had displayed in earlier victories over Springfield and Dartmouth...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Tigers Topple Stickwomen, 2-1; Crimson Scores First, but Falls | 10/28/1985 | See Source »

...arrest warrants were issued. Italian authorities believe that they have identified another terrorist who purchased tickets on the Achille Lauro for himself and for the four hijackers being held in Spoleto. Yet another suspect was registered aboard the cruise liner as a Greek citizen, but left the ship prior to the hijacking, at the Egyptian port of Alexandria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terrorism: The Price of Success | 10/28/1985 | See Source »

Italian antiterrorist forces were meanwhile assembling the case for the prosecution of the cruise-liner terrorists and widening the net of guilt. Five days prior to the cruise hijacking, police in Genoa, the home port of the Achille Lauro, had picked up a young Palestinian, Khalif Zainab, for possessing both Iraqi and Moroccan passports. In due course, he too was charged with murder, multiple kidnaping and lesser weapons charges along with the original four terrorist detainees. (The quartet: Abdel Atif Ibrahim, 19, Hallah Abdullah Hassan, 19, Hammad Ali Abdullah, 23, Majed Youssef Molky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terrorism: The Price of Success | 10/28/1985 | See Source »

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