Word: prior
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Prior to HSA's establishment, students, conducting business using the University's name often failed, he added...
...Prior to the funding increase, school officials, had said the proposed budget would require up to 50 teacher lay-offs, deep cuts in special programs at the high school, and combining grades at the elementary level to eliminate a $1.9 million shortfall...
...keynote speech to the New York Press Association conference and in a prior Crimson interview, the first woman vice presidential candidate said she feels that the current system is prone to abuse by the rich...
...Prior to the OAS speech, Alfonsin held what was probably the most crucial of all his meetings in the U.S., a breakfast session with Jacques de Larosiere, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund. The IMF had promised Argentina $1.4 billion in special credits in return for compliance with a severe anti-inflation program. Last week, however, the IMF suspended further disbursements of its funds on the grounds that Argentina is failing to meet specified austerity targets. Commercial banks did the same...
...score ransacks melodic styles from plainsong to Puccini to Gilbert and Sullivan to Richard Rodgers to Phil Spector to hip-hop, in a rock- symphonic synthesis ripe with sophistication and hummable tunes. The Shubert Organization's Bernard Jacobs, a man not easily given to rapture, says, "Very few scores prior to production have excited me as much as this one. None, in fact, since My Fair Lady...