Word: prior
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...indifferent voter response was a surprise, since the government had made it clear that it considered failure to vote a counterrevolutionary stance. In the days prior to the election, members of Nicaragua's neighborhood Sandinista Defense Committees carried that message door to door. Presidential Candidate Ortega stressed the same theme at a mammoth windup campaign rally in Managua, the capital, three days before the balloting. As some 300,000 people filled the huge, newly constructed Plaza of the Heroes and Martyrs on the shore of Lake Managua, Ortega declared, "All Nicaraguans who are Nicaraguans are going to vote...
...Jerusalem in 1967 was equally portentous, since it seemed to fulfill Jesus' words in Luke 4:24 and made theoretically possible the rebuilding of the Temple on its original site, a long-established requirement of many dispensationalists. According to some, the Antichrist will make his headquarters there prior to Jesus' last coming...
...Prior to joining PepsiCo in 1970, Pearson was a senior director at McKinsey and Company Incorporated, a management consulting firm, and since his installation as president 15 years ago, PepsiCo has increased its sales from $1 billion to $8 billion...
...prior years, Canadian autoworkers have usually gone along with the U.S. contracts. This time the goals of the two countries' workers are very different. U.S. employees, concerned about production's shifting to nonunion plants overseas, gave up their customary wage demands in exchange for job-security guarantees. But no Canadian auto plants have been closed, and no Canadian GM workers are on layoff. Robert White, the aggressive head of the Canadian U.A.W., has let it be known that his members do not want the profit sharing or lump-sum payments that are part of the just approved...
...judge, yet how often are apologies telephoned to the slighted coach? Two days after being tied by Texas, Oklahoma's Barry Switzer heard last week from the supervisor of officials that, as a matter of fact, there had been an interception in the end zone on the play prior to the Longhorns' last-second field goal. Sorry about that...