Before the notion was widely adopted in the 1970s, many of the classic films noirs were referred to as melodramas.

A popular graffito of the 1970s was the legend " Dick Nixon Before He Dicks You ", reflecting the hostility of the youth culture to that U. S. president.

Before the 1970s, physicists were uncertain about the binding mechanism of the atomic nucleus.

Before the late 1970s and early 1980s, it was common for many smaller cities to have their own operators.

Before the 1970s, most of Iraq's people lived in the countryside and roughly two-thirds were peasants.

Before the 1970s, dancers of both sexes appeared largely in underground clubs or as part of a theatre experience, but the practice eventually became common enough on its own.

Before tract development, beginning in the early 1970s, Lawrenceville was broadly defined as stretching two to three blocks back from Route 206.

Before the 1970s when Malay was made the medium of instruction, many such selective schools became known for providing excellent English-medium education and have produced many notable alumni, including the current Prime Minister of Malaysia Najib Tun Razak ( St. John's Institution ) and all five of his predecessors.

Before the early 1970s, hand-held electronic calculators were not yet in widespread use.

Before the 1970s, football was basically seen as a men's game.

Before it was turned into a club, the Haçienda was a yacht builder's shop and warehouse before becoming a Bollywood cinema in the 1970s, showing films to the local Asian community.

* Before Austin and Felicity make their escape back to 1999, Felicity tells Austin she wants to experience the 1970s and 1980s.

Before long, he began producing his own small scale tours before becoming a London-based producer in the 1970s.

Before the introduction of the microprocessor in the early 1970s, computers were generally large, costly systems owned by large institutions: corporations, universities, government agencies, and the like.

Before the merger, Mirage Resorts ( formerly Golden Nugget Companies, Inc .) had been in operation since the 1970s.

* Margaret Atwood's 1979 novel Life Before Man is set in Toronto in the late 1970s and several characters watch and sometimes comment upon the elections and sovereignist movement in Quebec.

Before the 1970s, there was no deaf community in Nicaragua.

Before the 1970s, his keyboard playing was sparse on recordings, because the intricacy of his music required that he conduct, but after the 1970s, he gradually moved from the front of the band back " into " the band.

Before Khadafi Janjalani was born, in the early 1970s, the Moro National Liberation Front ( MNLF ) was the main Muslim rebel group fighting in the Basilan region of the southern Philippines.

Before 1970s, the nuclear deterrence was long established under the government of Suhrawardy, but was completely peaceful and devoted for civil power.

Before the purchase, Barq's produced other sodas, such as lime green and grape, in the 1970s and early 1980s, and Coca-Cola manufactured its own root beer, Ramblin ' Root Beer.

Before the discoveries of A. afarensis in the 1970s, it was widely thought that an increase in brain size preceded the shift to bipedal locomotion.

Before the Iowa caucus first received national attention in the 1970s ( Republicans began caucusing in Iowa in 1976 ), the New Hampshire primary was the first binding indication of which presidential candidate would receive the party nomination.

Before anime began to be licensed in the U. S., fans who wanted to get a hold of anime would leak copies of anime movies and subtitle them to exchange with friends in the community, thus marking the start of fansubs.

Before the departure of British colonial rule and the subsequent independence of Pakistan, the population of the city included Hindus and Sikhs, but the community is still present numbering around 250, 000 residents.

Before then, children have no social standing within the community.

Before White, AIDS was a disease widely associated with the male gay community, because it was first diagnosed among gay men.

Before 1995, the eastern boundary of the city of Takoma Park was in Prince George's County, Maryland, causing the community to be divided across two counties and the Maryland / D. C.

Before 1800, its free black community founded the African Methodist Episcopal Church ( AME ), the first independent black denomination in the country, and the first black Episcopal Church.

Before the widespread use of Unix, TOPS-10 was a particularly popular system in universities, and in the early ARPANET community.

Before 1948, Haifa's Municipality was fairly unique as it developed cooperation between the mixed Arab and Jewish community in the city, with representatives of both groups involved in the city's management.

Before Wright's birth, his parents had moved to England when they fell out with their fellow Protestants in the community after his grandfather had challenged tradition by running as an Independent Unionist candidate and defeated the local Official Unionist MP.

Before WWII there were 25, 000 Jews in Kalisz, but most of them were murdered by the Nazis and by the summer of 1942 the Jewish community in Kalisz was entirely dismantled.

Before 1850 most of Clatsop County's government activity occurred in Lexington, a community located where Warrenton is now.

Before the community was constructed, most of the area was of farmland mainly growing cotton.

Before that it was nicknamed " Little Switzerland " ( due to the similarities of the valley landscape to Switzerland as well as the predominantly Swiss community at the time ).

Before the Town of Burns Harbor was incorporated, the center of community activity was the Westport Community Club, which was established in 1954.

Before 1920, the community was known as Berlin.

Before the plat was formally recorded, Standish sold some of his land in the community and the town was initially named " Granton.

Before the War, Venlo had an active Jewish community.

Before its incorporation in 1855, the small community was previously known as both Fair View and Hog-Eye.

Before Laurel became a city or a community, people passed through the site during the gold rush period, when gold was discovered at the Clarks Fork headwaters.

Before the community was created, the area that is today Lake Mohawk was known as " Brogden's Meadow.

Before the mid-nineteenth century, the predominantly Quaker community was largely isolated politically, culturally and geographically from the plantation and slave owning eastern regions of North Carolina that dominated the state legislature.

Before 1974, Morphou was an almost entirely Greek Cypriot community.

Before incorporating, the community elected a town planning committee in 1962, and then elected a town committee in 1972.

Before the identity of Lorton, the commercial center was Colchester and the spiritual and historical center of the community around which the leading citizens of the time revolved was Pohick Church.