Word: prior
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although Kiely told students in attendance at the review session to spread the word, students said this could not be done in time. Many didn't receive the information until just prior to the examination...
...camera nor did he have any means of obtaining one. On the edge of both starvation and the broomstick of his landlady he swallowed his pride enough to live off of distant relatives and faint acquaintances until he got himself a camera and began shooting. With no prior photographic experience, his early days as a photographer were anything but propitious. Capa was especially atrocious in the darkroom where he would often destroy his negatives and sometimes those of others. But it was in his eyes that his talent lay. He knew very little of the technical side of photography...
...Richardson-Vicks, based in Wilton, Conn., the trouble began last month, when its stockholders received a $54-a-share offer from Unilever, the British- Dutch household-products giant. Prior to the bid, Richardson-Vicks had been trading for about $40 a share. Nonetheless, its executives spurned the offer, thinking they could get even more for the company and fearing Unilever's reputation for trimming the management ranks of firms it acquires. Unilever upped its bid to $60 a share, but Richardson-Vicks still put out a plea for a "white knight" to make a friendly merger bid. Procter & Gamble...
Just ask the organizers of the MIT-Harvard symposium who planned a slide program showing sexually explicit, pornographic images to the conference's participants for educational purposes. Because of MIT campus guidelines, the feminists, some of whom support the Cambridge referendum, could not exhibit the slides without prior approval from the university six weeks in advance...
...were intimidated and we choked," freshman Nancy Prior said. "We definitely didn't play our best...