Before the introduction of UTC on 1 January 1972 Greenwich Mean Time ( also known as Zulu time ) was the same as Universal Time ( UT ) which is a standard astronomical concept used in many technical fields.

Before being knighted in 1972, however, he was generally known as " Bob Askin ".

Before 1972, Zambia had three significant political parties — UNIP, the Northern Rhodesian African National Congress, and the United Progressive Party ( UPP ).

Before her marriage to the King of Sweden, Silvia Sommerlath worked at the Argentine Consulate in Munich, was an educational host during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, and served as the Deputy Head of Protocol for the Winter Games in Innsbruck in Austria.

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

Before the late 1972 tour began, Walker quit Savoy Brown to join Fleetwood Mac.

Before the Local Government Act 1972 came into force in 1974 Wisbech was a municipal borough ; it is now a civil parish in the Fenland District.

Before the World War II, Heinola was widely known as a spa town, and until 1972 it served as a location for an institute ( seminaari ) that taught elementary school teachers.

The Band frequently performed the song in concert, and it can be found on the group's live albums Rock of Ages ( 1972 ) and Before the Flood ( 1974 ).

Before the 1972 election, Muskie was viewed as a front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination.

Before the 1972 season, the Giants traded the then 32-year-old Perry and shortstop Frank Duffy to the Cleveland Indians for 29-year-old flamethrower Sam McDowell, the ace of the Indians ' staff.

Before the Local Government Act 1972 the area covered by South Yorkshire was part of the West Riding of Yorkshire.

Before, UNC was a member of the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference from 1923 to 1972.

Before the 1972 reversion of the island to Japanese administration, it has been speculated but never confirmed that up to 1, 200 nuclear weapons may have been stored at Kadena Air Base, Okinawa in the 1960s.

* Luraghi, Raimondo, " The Civil War and the Modernization of American Society: Social Structure and Industrial Revolution in the Old South Before and During the War ", Civil War History XVIII ( Sept. 1972 ).

Before 1962 and from 1972 to 1978 the award title did not specify instrumental performances and was presented for instrumental or vocal performances.

Before that, the Coliseum had been home to the New York Nets of the American Basketball Association, and later the National Basketball Association, from 1972 – 1977.

Before 1972, this border point was one of two southern terminus for the Queen Elizabeth Way.

Before the store came about, the sole-proprietor sold cendols along Jalan Nanas on his mobile-store attached to his motorcycle and had been so since 1972.

Before the 1972 season, Lemon talked about the Royals ' chances, saying " Five clubs could win it, including ourselves.

Before the song became a hit single in 1972 she told an interviewer that the song was about " men ," not a specific " man.

Before 1972 the only lessons taught in Dutch were the Dutch language lessons.

Before that he was London bureau chief ( 1965 – 1972 ), Washington, D. C. bureau ( 1955 – 64 ), and deskman ( 1948 – 1952 ) all for the Times.

Before the 1972 referendum about whether Denmark should join the European Union, he went against the stated interest of his own labor union, arguing for a yes.

Before this season, the Dolphins had never won a playoff game in franchise history, but they surprised the entire NFL by advancing to the Super Bowl with wins against the two previous Super Bowl champions.

Before his loss, the Bears allowed only two opponents to score more than twenty points ( 23 points to the Arizona Cardinals in week six and 31 to the Miami Dolphins in week 9 ).

Before the New England Patriots game Ronnie Brown was made the starting running back and has been featured in the Dolphins ' popular Wildcat formation, which borrows from former Auburn University OC Gus Malzahn's college spread offense.

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 he went into battle Andrei had told Alex, `` I only want to be a Pole.

Before the outbreak's end, Andover, Kansas, would record the year's only F5 tornado ( see Andover, Kansas Tornado Outbreak ).

Before the mid-1960s, computers were extremely expensive and used only for special-purpose tasks.

Before 1910 the difficulty of harmonizing the Proprium de Tempore and the Proprium Sanctorum, to which reference has been made, was only partly met in the thirty-seven chapters of general rubrics.

Before 1873, England had two parallel court systems: courts of " law " that could only award money damages and recognized only the legal owner of property, and courts of " equity " ( courts of chancery ) that could issue injunctive relief ( that is, a court order to a party to do something, give something to someone, or stop doing something ) and recognized trusts of property.

Before Young, only two pitchers had thrown perfect games.

Before the entry into the American market in 1958, Nissan did not produce cars under the Nissan brand name, but only trucks.

Before the 20th century many double basses had only three strings, in contrast to the five to six strings typical of instruments in the string family or the four strings of instruments in the violin family.

Before that time the friars had only a temporary residence in Rome at the convent of San Sisto Vecchio which Honorius III had given to Dominic circa 1218 intending it to become a convent for a reformation of nuns at Rome under Dominic's guidance.

Before the advent of fast computing machines, solving a dynamical system required sophisticated mathematical techniques and could be accomplished only for a small class of dynamical systems.

Before the snap of the ball, in the American game, backfield players may only move parallel to the line of scrimmage, only one back may be in motion at any given time, and if forward motion has occurred, the back must be still for a full second before the snap.

Before 2007 there existed only a few other places on the Formula 1 calendar with a body of water close to the track.

Before, geologists could only use fossils to date sections of rock relative to one another.

Before Cantor, there were only finite sets ( which are easy to understand ) and " the infinite " ( which was considered a topic for philosophical, rather than mathematical, discussion ).

Before the discoveries, the only source of information about Hittites had been the Old Testament ( see Biblical Hittites ).

Before the war broke out, Poland entered into a full military alliance with Britain and France ; the western powers lacked the will to confront Nazi Germany and their ( false ) assurances of imminent military action were only intended as pressure applied to deter Hitler.

Before the modern age and the worldwide spread of knowledge, written examples of new mathematical developments have come to light only in a few locales.

Before consolidation of many of these rural school districts in the last half of the twentieth century, Indiana high schools had fewer students than those of most other states ; basketball was a natural game for these schools since it only required five starters and a few reserves.

Before railway construction on the Continent demanded huge quantities of maleable iron mainly for rails, for which low quality iron sufficed, Wallonia was the only Continental region to follow the British model successfully.

Before 1500 European economies were largely self-sufficient, only supplemented with Asia and Africa.

Before the English Civil War, a pamphlet by William Neade entitled The Double-Armed Man advocated that soldiers be trained in both the longbow and pike ; this advice was followed only by a few town militias.

Before the Revolution, despite supporting political reform ( including Bolsheviks elected to the Duma, when opportune ), Lenin proposed that capitalism could ultimately only be overthrown with revolution, not with gradual reforms — from within ( Fabianism ) and from without ( social democracy ) — which would fail, because the ruling capitalist social class, who hold economic power ( the means of production ), determine the nature of political power in a bourgeois society.