Word: priore
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Carnesale, who had worked closely with Ellwood prior to 1992, said he could not speculate as to what Ell- wood's appointment would mean for the KennedySchool's dean search...
Before the jury filed in just prior to 8 p.m. on Saturday, Circuit Judge William Howard admonished the spectators and participants not to show any emotion. It seemed an impossible request, given the passion and compassion aroused by the case. Yet when June Miller, the Union County, South Carolina, clerk of court, read "guilty of murder" on the first count, the courtroom froze as if a tableau. Only Susan Smith seemed to move, shuddering at what had just been said and was about to be said again. "Guilty of murder," said the clerk on the second count...
...FROM CRACKING DOWN, ATF allowed the number of licensed gun dealers to swell to nearly 300,000 by 1993. Often it failed to conduct thorough background checks for prior criminal offenses. In a survey it found that 72% of its licensed dealers never even bothered to open a bona fide store, but operated instead from their homes. Under Magaw, however, the bureau has lately got much tougher on applicants, requiring for the first time that they submit fingerprints and a photograph. Now the number of dealers is falling at a rate of 150 dealers a day, an ATF spokesman says...
...most telling assault was issued on the Internet by Donna Hoffman and Thomas Novak, associate professors of management at Vanderbilt University. When contacted by TIME prior to the cover story's publication, Hoffman made some of her concerns known. But she -- and TIME -- was constrained by exclusivity terms imposed by the Law Journal that prevented her from seeing the full study before Time's cover went to press...
...which the court decided that states could not limit the terms of members of Congress because the framers of the Constitution established the exclusive qualifications. And O'Connor wrote the strong dissent when the court ruled that public high schools can require drug tests for student athletes without prior suspicion of drug use. Moreover, Kennedy and O'Connor often wrote separate opinions this term to distance themselves from the three other conservatives with whom they voted. In the University of Virginia ruling, for instance, O'Connor made clear her preference for dealing with church-state entanglements on a case...