Word: prior
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Once again, the University will accord great latitude to student organizations in determining how to conduct their meetings. Since organizations may restrict private meetings to their own members, they may invite particular guests to an otherwise closed meeting on the explicit, prior understanding that only members will be allowed to participate in discussion. Once an organization opens its meeting to the public, however, it must not then discriminate on grounds such as race, religion, or political persuasion in deciding who shall be given the opportunity to ask questions. A moderator may limit the question period for the benefit...
Gilligan's Harvard colleagues say that she has made an important contribution to the field of developmental psychology. David McClelland, professor of psychology, says that Gilligan's work was "very much needed." The field was incomplete, he says, because prior theories dealt strictly with male development. He says that her perspective which he calls "the first of its kind" is sure to be influential in the field for years to come...
Furthermore, the prosecution failed to maintain the credibility of its undercover operatives and informants. Tisa admitted he had destroyed some of the notes from his investigation and had accepted and passed to his superiors false information from Hoffman that De Lorean had a prior history of drug involvements. The prosecution conceded that Hoffman was a paid informer and an admitted perjurer. His claim that he had been approached by De Lorean was undercut by testimony that he had boasted to the Feds as early as 1982, "I'm going to get John De Lorean for you guys ... The problems...
...Switzerland came to opposite conclusions in the marathon. "I was extremely comfortable the entire way. It was a very smooth, happy, training-run atmosphere," said Benoit, whose 2-hr. 24-min. 52-sec. frolic was dramatic only in light of the arthroscopic knee surgery she underwent 17 days prior to winning...
...further hardened their position, trying to set "preconditions" for the Vienna negotiations. Among them was an insistence that the U.S. agree in advance to a moratorium on the testing and deployment of antisatellite systems. The Soviets already possess such a system; the U.S. does not. According to McFarlane, such prior commitment to a moratorium would in effect "prejudge" the outcome of the talks...