Word: priore
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...Prior to holding his post at Dartmouth, Travia worked as an undergraduate with alcohol and drug education at Boston College...
...strategy: for the past two years, the Beijing government has been urging Chinese firms to expand their presence in overseas markets. Some have begun to respond. Late last year computer giant Lenovo bought the high-profile but money-losing personal-computer business from IBM for $1.75 billion. Prior to that, TCL, a consumer-electronics maker, bought the RCA TV business from French giant Thomson. And all the while, Chinese energy companies have been making deals with governments and private companies, desperately trying to acquire oil-and-gas reserves needed to power an economy still growing 9% annually...
...researcher knows, it is customary for a scientist joining another research institution to bring to his new laboratory materials related to his prior and on-going research,” the statement says. “Indeed, Harvard was well aware that Drs. Zhu and Kimbara would continue to pursue their research at the University of Texas...
Tracking down leaks and insider trading on the stock market, however, has proved notoriously difficult. RCA stock shot up just prior to an announcement that the company would be merging with General Electric. Macy's shares rose precipitously shortly before plans for a management buyout were disclosed. In neither case has proof emerged of trading by people who were privy to inside information...
LaRouche, who warned that he would not "submit passively to an arrest," apparently blames his troubles on the Communists: a spokesman claimed Soviet Communist Party Leader Mikhail Gorbachev had "demanded the head of LaRouche on a platter" prior to the Iceland minisummit. But his real adversaries are closer to home. The Leesburg raid was almost a community effort: residents, wary of the paranoid strangers in town, provided furtive assistance to investigators, taking down auto-license numbers of LaRouche followers and reporting suspicious behavior. LaRouche has "alienated a lot of the local people," said a police officer. "He called two elderly...