Before retiring in 2007, Stempel was chairman of Energy Conversion for almost 12 years.

" Before retiring in 2007, Stempel was chairman of Energy Conversion for almost 12 years.

Before retiring, Abbott was the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for International Cooperation ( Canada ).

Before retiring after the 2002 season, he competed part-time for Hyundai.

Before retiring from politics, Marsden co-authored the book ' Voices for Peace ' published by Simon and Schuster in 2001.

Before retiring, she was Dean of Science at the University of Bath ( 2001-04 ), and she was the President of the Royal Astronomical Society between 2002 and 2004.

Before retiring during the season, he had also managed that year's rookie of the year, Todd Hollandsworth.

Before retiring, he won seven consecutive Gold Glove Awards from when the award was first introduced in 1958 to 1964.

Before retiring from playing basketball in 1966, Thompson had been selected by the Chicago Bulls in that year's expansion draft.

Before retiring to his tent for some sleep, Mr. Maloney's last words were reportedly: ' I am the happiest man in the world.

Before the inauguration of a state-wide Missouri football title in the late 1960s, the Jr. Bills football squad won ten city championships, retiring the St. Louis Globe-Democrat City / County trophy, which sits proudly in one of the trophy cases by the school's switchboard.

Before retiring due to ill health he worked for the Inland Revenue, while also retaining a strong personal interest in cricket.

Before Saturday morning practice triple ( and defending ) World Champion ( and 1984 race winner ) Niki Lauda announced to the media, flanked by a very unhappy McLaren team boss Ron Dennis, that he would be retiring for good from Formula One following the Australian Grand Prix to concentrate on running his airline Lauda Air.

After retiring from MMA, Couture became a regular broadcast commentator for UFC events and co-host of Before the Bell and After the Bell on The Fight Network.

Before retiring as a player, he returned to England to represent Nottingham Forest and Wycombe Wanderers.

Before the 2003 season, after the Broncos signed former Cardinals QB Jake Plummer to be their new starter, Beuerlein considered retiring at age 38, but decided to play one more year after Shanahan personally visited his home and asked him to stay.

Before retiring, he lost a match to Larry Evans by the score of 5. 5-4. 5.

Before the final game of the 2005 season, Kansas State offered to name the stadium after retiring head coach Bill Snyder.

Before retiring from coaching after the 2001-02 season, she sent four girls ’ teams, twenty-five individuals, and one men ’ s relay team to State competitions.

Before retiring in September 2010, he was a major contributor to Toronto Medical Officer of Health David McKeown's food strategy report called Cultivating Food Connections.

Before the 2001 season, Donahoe was selected to replace John Butler as general manager of the Buffalo Bills, as well as take over the position of team president from a retiring Ralph Wilson.

Before retiring Lennie raced his last race on 10 September 1989 at Richmond International Raceway in the Miller High Life 400 where he finished in 11th place.

Before coronal consonants, this produced Alderney, alter, bald, balderdash, bold, cold, false, fold, false, falter, gold, halt, hold, malt, molten, mould / mold, old, palsy, salt, shoulder ( earlier sholder ), smolder, told, Wald, Walter and wold ( in the sense of " tract of land ").

Before demolition, fans were given the opportunity to play on the pitch, in specially arranged friendly matches, and an auction was staged at the ground on 17 June 2007, where over 200 items from the old ground were auctioned.

Before the old clubhouse was demolished, memorabilia from the old building were auctioned off in support of the Children's Charity Association of Singapore.

Before merging them into a common profile it is well to remember that their separate careers were extraordinary.

Before the Draft Act was passed Baker had confidentially briefed governors, sheriffs, and prospective draft board members on the administration of the measure -- and the confidence was kept so well that only one newspaper learned what was going on.

Before the arrival of the British, Rajputs, Jats, the Kathats, Cheetas and Rawat Rajputs were land-holders, as well as cultivators.

Before and during his political career, Disraeli was well known as a literary and social figure, although his novels are not generally regarded as a part of the Victorian literary canon.

Before the Service Number was introduced in the 1990s, military personnel were identified on the I discs ( as well as other documents ) by their Social Insurance Number.

Before the end of 1976, Bowie's interest in the burgeoning German music scene, as well as his drug addiction, prompted him to move to West Berlin to clean up and revitalise his career.

Before D. W. Griffith started directing at Biograph in May 1908, he had seen the two Pathé films just mentioned, and a number of Vitagraph films as well.

Before the launch of tubgirl. com, this image was featured in a rotten. com story " Fecal Japan " claiming that the subject matter is popular in Japan, and in a San Francisco Chronicle article by author Violet Blue, as well as being the subject of a joke by Gizmodo.

Before 1946, children as well as adults were content in carving and shaping wooden replicas from block wood kits, often depicting enemy aircraft to help in identification in case of invasion.

Before the year was over, Brown, who had immediately returned to work with his band following his release, organized a pay-per-view concert following a show at Los Angeles ' Wiltern Theatre, that was well received.

Before the revelation of Sheldon's identity, Tiptree was often referred to as an unusually macho male ( see, e. g., Robert Silverberg's commentaries ) as well as an unusually feminist science fiction writer ( for a male ) — particularly for " The Women Men Don't See ", a story of two women who go looking for aliens to escape from male-dominated society on Earth.

Before his death he played extensively in colleges, concert halls, coffee houses and also on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, as well as recording three further albums for Vanguard Records.

Before the specific dangers of conjugated equine estrogens were well understood, standard therapy was 0. 625 mg / day of conjugated equine estrogens ( such as Premarin ).

Before the advent of copyright, anonymous and pseudonymous publication was a common practice in the sixteenth century publishing world, and a passage in the Arte of English Poesie ( 1589 ), the leading work of literary criticism of the Elizabethan period and an anonymously published work itself, mentions in passing that literary figures in the court who wrote " commendably well " circulated their poetry only among their friends, " as if it were a discredit for a gentleman to seem learned " ( Book 1, Chapter 8 ).

Before the Province of New York was granted county subdivisions and a greater royal presence in 1683, the early ducal colony consisted of York Shire, as well as Albany and Ulster, after the three titles held by Prince James: Duke of York, Duke of Albany, Earl of Ulster.

Before the start of the 1994 season, San Diego was not expected to do well because they had so many newcomers via the draft and free agency ; the Chargers ended up 22 new players on their roster and 10 of them became starters.

" Waits also continued to further his acting career with a supporting role as Rudy the Kraut in Ironweed ( an adaptation of William Kennedy's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel ) alongside Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep, in which Waits performed the song " Big Rock Candy Mountain ", as well as a part in Robert Frank's Candy Mountain, in which Waits also performed " Once More Before I Go.

Before Linux 2. 6. 33, ReiserFS heavily used the big kernel lock ( BKL ) — a global kernel-wide lock — which does not scale very well for systems with multiple cores, as the critical code parts are only ever executed by one core at a time.

Before father and son can be reconciled, George is killed at the battle of Waterloo, leaving the pregnant Amelia to carry on as well as she can.

Before the Second Vatican Council Pentecost Monday as well was a Holy Day of Obligation during which the Catholic Church addressed the newly baptized and confirmed.

Before the Vicksburg Campaign in the spring of 1863, Sherman expressed serious reservations about the wisdom of Grant's unorthodox strategy, but he went on to perform well in that campaign under Grant's supervision.

Before the end of the year, Psyche had been back to Poland, played as part of the Endless Danse Macabre Festivals in the Netherlands, and Belgium as well as played for the first time ever in Australia.

Before acting on the Pope's commission, Cyril convened a synod of Egyptian bishops which condemned Nestorius as well.

Agnes Mongan has written of the portrait drawings: Before his departure in the fall of 1806 from Paris for Rome, the familiar characteristics of his drawing style were well established, the delicate yet firm contour, the definite yet discreet distortions of form, the almost uncanny capacity to seize a likeness in the precise yet lively delineation of features. The preferred materials were also already established: the sharply pointed graphite pencil on a smooth white paper.

Before the TCDD risk was well understood, early production facilities lacked proper temperature controls.