Word: prior
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Although Moore will relinquish most of her prior administrative duties, she says she fully intends to stay on as Dunster House Master. "Cresap will have to do more work," she laughs. But Moore says she expects her deanship will not cut into time spent with House residents...
...below it. The household statistics are somewhat misleading, to be sure, since Asian families are much more likely than whites to rely on the paychecks of two or more family members. Even so, the overall gains in Asian earning power have come far more rapidly than those for any prior surge of immigrants, who had to labor a generation or more before catching up to average living standards...
Although it would run into unexpected delays, the arrangement had been settled on by Friday night. Assad by then had emerged as the intermediary who would take custody of the hostages from Berri and quickly set them free. Berri had agreed to hand over the Americans without any prior or even simultaneous release of the prisoners in Atlit. That would save face for the U.S. and Israel; both countries had insisted that any outright swap would constitute a payoff for terrorism. It was assumed that Israel would begin "unilaterally" setting the Atlit prisoners free as soon as the American hostages...
Laura was also at odds with her mother. The two admitted they had not spoken to each other for 16 months prior to last November. The daughter claimed that they had quarreled over her mother's refusal to tell the FBI about John Walker's spying and thus break Mark's hold on Christopher. Laura considered going to the FBI alone, but her loyalties were divided. "I was torn between exposing my father and risking (his spending) his entire life in jail," she said. "I do love my father." At the same time, Laura claimed, her mother had warned...
About two months prior to that evening. I talked with Russell in his city hall office about his first year as the highest elected official in the city...