Word: prior
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviet heavy-industrybelt of the ! Urals. Transferred to Moscow's governing bureaucracy in 1975, Ryzhkov served from 1979 to 1982 as first deputy chairman of Gosplan, the state planning agency. He was then moved to the Central Committee Secretariat, the powerful body that effectively administers the Soviet Union. Prior to 1981 Ryzhkov had never held a Communist Party job. In April, Gorbachev promoted Ryzhkov to full Politburo status without the normal interval of service as a nonvoting candidate...
...quadrangle also served as the College pigpen and garbage dump prior to the Kirkland administration. Historical accounts say University Minor was rat-infested and dangerous...
...Prior to the Harvard-Radcliffe merger in 1977, men and women voted separately for their respective class marshals. The current system allows seniors to vote for both women and men candidates or either...
...brief statement issued last week abruptly curbed recent federal efforts to subject a broader range of federally funded research to prior review in order to reduce the flow of technological information to the Soviet Union...
Eskow cited a new team attitude as another reason for the Crimson's success and handed much of the credit to Nancy Prior, a freshman who kept the team up emotionally...