Word: prior
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...taken to task on editorial pages for being antipress in First Amendment cases, but in fact the record is mixed. The court has generally protected the press's right to print the news, while refusing to give reporters special protection for news gathering. Thus it has struck down prior restraints on publication but refused to give reporters a First Amendment right to shield sources...
...feudin' and fumin'. He accused Miller, a Reagan appointee, of deliberately sidetracking the FTC's mission to protect consumers against unfair and deceptive business practices. "While they have fiddled," complained Pertschuk in a 240-page critique of the Reagan FTC that he submitted to Congress prior to his departure, "consumers have been burned...
...Prior to [the ending of] Daylight Saving Time, we always start at two," Kinney said. He added that it was also necessary because many "students have classes on Saturdays that don't get out until the early afternoon...
...statement of sympathy for the victims' families and support for the President, Mondale harshly criticized the Administration for failing to anticipate the attack. The U.S. had received clear-cut threats that terrorists planned to strike at a U.S. installation in Beirut, Mondale said, and it knew from prior experience that a car bomb was the most likely weapon. In addition, he said, some of the security measures recommended by the Long Commission, established in the wake of the Marine barracks bombing to study ways of preventing future attacks, had not been carried out at the Beirut annex. Charged Mondale...
...five, he was famous for his performances on the harpsichord and violin. At 26 he arrived at the court of Emperor Joseph II where he would write his greatest music, and forever change the life of court composer Antonio Salieri. For the decade that Mozart lived in Vienna prior to his death at 36, the two musicians were locked in an unspoken rivalry for the favor of both the monarch and the Viennese public...