Word: priore
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Shelia P. Burke, who most recently served as Chief of Staff to former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, accepted the position of executive dean last fall, and Professors of Public Policy Jane J. Mansbridge and Katherine Newman were recent faculty recruits. Prior to the new hires, the Kennedy School in the 1996 University Report on Affirmative Action listed four women in a senior faculty totalling...
That's what the U.S. is starting to wonder as well. Joint operations aboard Mir were originally designed to give American astronauts space-station experience prior to the launch of a new international space station in 1998 and to keep the Russians engaged in a high-profile cooperative project. But a series of mishaps on the creaky, 11-year-old Mir over the past six months has raised questions about the station's safety, threatening to send space cooperation into what may turn out to be an uncontrolled spin of its own. Some U.S. legislators, reflecting widespread public exasperation, want...
ECONOMIC BACKDROP Prior transitions from war to peace were accompanied by painful economic downturns. But the 1950s radically parted with that tradition as a result of massive federal intervention and the fact that the U.S. emerged physically unscathed, and rich, from history's most destructive war. Government helped: the Employment Act of 1946 (promoting maximum employment and production), the G.I. Bill (giving veterans financial aid to return to school) and the Federal Aid Highway Act (building highways everywhere) eased the transition to a peacetime economy...
...present, the fire wall in Fastnet's unit, which according to O'Baoill was built to subdivide the space prior to his tenancy, is still cracked and bowed out. A gap which exists where the wall does not meet the ceiling is patched with plywood and insulation. According to O'Baoill, the wall did not seal with the underside of the ceiling even before a March 1996 fire left it structurally unsound...
...perfect essay, like life itself, is exact in formal procedure and logical ascent. It has a beginning, known more intimately as a birth, a middle, that part in which one determines the direction and slant of one's future endeavors, and an end, the climax toward which all prior experiences naturally lead and in which the essence of the topic, one's purpose, becomes known. Let us proceed now to discuss first the birth, second the middle, and third the end of the perfect essay...