Word: prior
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...another student organization adversely affected by the more stringent enforcement, will continue distributing flyers, but will have to submit them to Flick's office for approval prior to giving them to students...
...Prior to joining his present firm, he worked for IBM for 12 years...
...Prior to last week's balloting, a special nominating committee had considered 59 possible candidates for Stated Clerk. After winnowing the group to 13 finalists, the panel came up with a surprising suggestion: it proposed the Rev. Patricia McClurg, an administrator with Andrews in Atlanta. The 45-year-old McClurg would have been the first woman to lead a major Christian church. But her candidacy was quickly squashed by the General Assembly's own nominating committee, which passed over McClurg without explanation and announced a slate of Thompson and Andrews. Perhaps, remarked McClurg, the committee felt that...
...Rehnquist seemed to be saying that incarceration in often dangerous juvenile jails is comparable to parental supervision at home. Marshall was concerned about the breadth of the New York law, which allows a family-court judge to hold a child in preventive detention no matter what his crime or prior record...
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 strictly had to do 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...