Word: priore
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Since then, the bailout program has been widely criticized as wasteful, in part because it was clear prior to 9/11 that the airline industry had too much capacity and some carriers were in trouble. In this capitalism-without-a-parachute view, the demise of a carrier or two was inevitable and the attacks, however brutal, served to accelerate that process...
...Think Twice Before Merging Five years after Daimler-Benz and Chrysler merged, the transatlantic deal is still under fire from investors. A U.S. court will this week begin hearing charges that the marriage was wrongly billed as a "merger of equals." U.S. billionaire Kirk Kerkorian - Chrysler's biggest shareholder prior to the $36 billion tie-up - is suing DaimlerChrysler for fraud, claiming the deal was not a merger but a takeover, with the German firm running Chrysler. There's more to it than semantics: slating the deal as a merger bypasses the need to pay shareholder premiums, as would happen...
Like Balestracci, freshman tailback Clifton Dawson was unanimously selected for the squad, though he was ineligible for rookie of the year honors after spending a redshirt season practicing with Northwestern prior to attending Harvard...
...Prior to the run of blocking calls, Harvard had drawn six player control fouls against the Crusaders...
...what has happened during the two decades since widespread expansion of the Washington Consensus? In 1980, the richest 10 percent of nations had 77 times higher median income than the poorest 10 percent; by 1999, it had grown to 122 times. Prior to the victory of the Washington Consensus, Latin America and the Caribbean experienced a 75 percent growth in per capita GDP from 1960 to 1980 but since then has stagnated with total growth of 7 percent. Sub-Saharan Africa actually tumbled 15 percent during this period after experiencing a 34 percent growth in the previous two decades?...