Word: prior
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Such were the words of a professor I greatly respect, two days prior to my departure for Beijing. He was, at my request, expressing his opinion on continuing academic exchange with China in light of the events of June...
Hoffmann spoke on the reasons for the appeasement of Germany by the West that occured prior to the war. While Germany was ready to fight another war, the opposite was true of the West, Hoffmannn said, adding that in 1939, appeasement was not nessesarily a poor tactic'. "If one looks at England and France one sees an enormous battle fatigue," Hoffmann said...
...debt of gratitude to the president of the United States, who was willing to stand up and support a minimum wage increase, thereby reversing the policy of the prior administration, which had consistently opposed any increase," said Majority Leader George Mitchell of Maine...
...campaign and in some of his presidential statements earlier this year, Bush accepted the proposition that the time to act is now. But the Commerce and Interior departments have waged constant guerrilla warfare against any effort to make good on the President's prior commitments. Meanwhile, the President's chief of staff John Sununu has taken to questioning aspects of the greenhouse theory. There is room for debate over the exact magnitude of climate change that will result from CO2 emissions, but no respectable scientist denies that if humanity keeps pouring gases into the atmosphere, the earth will heat...
...Brown football media guide. It says, "Brown University's football team is determined to return to the success of 1987, when the Bears finished second in the Ivy League with a 7-3 record. After a transition year where Coach John Rosenberg went with a number of players without prior varsity experience, the Bears should be ready to get back into the hunt for the Ivy League once again...