Word: priore
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...FRANKS: Prior to 9/11, our U.S. operating strength in the region was somewhere around 20,000 to 25,000 on a given day. Right now we have about 60,000. In Afghanistan the number is about...
...governing bodies concluded that the U.S. players did not desecrate a Canadian flag prior to Canada’s 3-2 victory over...
...Russians, who threatened to boycott the closing ceremony. Russian Olympic Committee president Leonid Tyagachev claimed that Olympic officials had treated Larissa Lazutina, a nine-time Olympic medal winner, unfairly when they disqualified her from the 4x5-km cross-country relay after she failed a blood test administered just prior to competition. The Russians, who have had a poor showing at the Games, also complained that their hockey team was heavily penalized and that their skaters, including silver medalist Irina Slutskaya, were harshly judged. In Moscow, politicians, reflecting public anger, expressed outrage. Sports Minister Pavel Rozhkov demanded both apologies and action...
...intimate film where the actors were free to move, to fluidly capture the seamlessness and the various coexistences of Indian life. The idea is to make the audience feel as if they are guests at the wedding. I had a two-and-a-half-week workshop with the actors prior to shooting the film. We choreographed most of it so that when we were ready to shoot, we were flying...
Ohno didn’t even make the finals of the men’s 500 meters, contested prior to the relay. And while American Rusty Smith became the hero of the early evening after winning a bronze in the 500, he was the goat of the late evening, tripping over a lane marker in the relay to knock the U.S. out of championship contention...