Before entering Columbia, he served for four years as a Legislative Assistant for U. S. Representative Donald M. Fraser, helping Fraser shape and pass the landmark Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness Act of 1978.

Before the entry into force of Protocol 11, Section II ( Article 19 ) set up the Commission and the Court, Sections III ( Articles 20 to 37 ) and IV ( Articles 38 to 59 ) included the high-level machinery for the operation of, respectively, the Commission and the Court, and Section V contained various concluding provisions.

Before the establishment of the present European Commission, there was the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community.

Before the Nuclear Regulatory Commission ( NRC ) was created, nuclear regulation was the responsibility of the AEC, which Congress first established in the Atomic Energy Act of 1946.

Before the end of World War I, he was appointed one of three principal architects for the Imperial War Graves Commission and was involved with the creation of many monuments to commemorate the dead.

Before the trial, a report was carried to the Parliament " as if some busie men had made use of some ill Arts to extort such confession " that a special Commission of Oyer and Terminer was granted for the trial of these witches.

Before resigning, Rutherford's government had called a Royal Commission into the Alberta and Great Waterways affair, and this commission had not reported by the time that Sifton took office.

* Dynamite in the Dock: Harry Pollitt's Evidence Before the Arms Inquiry Commission.

Before joining Diabetes UK, Young was involved in the establishment of the Care Quality Commission ( CQC ).

Before the Commission was able to report Michie died at her home in Oban after receiving treatment for cancer.

Before the PP's triumph in the 1996 elections, he was a PP-designated member of the " Commission of Parliamentary Control of the RTVE ".

Before and after Clarke appeared before the 9 / 11 Commission, defenders of the Bush administration tried to attack his credibility, launching a full-scale offensive against him: impugning his personal motives, claiming he was a disappointed job-hunter, that he was publicity-mad, a political partisan.

In March 2005, the United States Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) made 8-1-1 the universal number for the 71 regional services that coordinate location services for underground public utilities in the U. S. Before that time, each of these " call before you dig " services had its own 800 number, and the FCC and others wanted to make it as easy as possible for everyone planning an excavation to call first.

Before entering politics she was a Regional Manager with the Tourism Commission of New South Wales, a guest house co-proprietor, and a member of the Wingecarribee Shire Council.

Before that he was the Staff Director for the Commission to Assess the Ballistic Missile Threat to the United States from January 1998 to July 1998 ; a Senior Fellow in Political-Military Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies ( CSIS ) from 1993 to 1998 ; the Director for Strategic Defense Policy in the Office of the Secretary of Defense from 1990 to 1993 ; the Deputy Director, Strategic Analysis, SRS Technologies ( Washington Operations ) from 1986 to 1990 ; and a Staff Member in the Office of the Director, Los Alamos National Laboratory from 1982 to 1986.

Before the public meeting, Thigpenn had already contacted the Broadcast Bureau of the Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) to discover that two analog television frequencies ( channels 30 and 47 ) were available for broadcast in Jacksonville.

Before he was appointed to the post, he served as the Malaysia's Assistant High Commissioner in Madras from 1963 to 1964, Second Secretary of Malaysia's Embassy in Paris in between 1966 and 1968, the Counsellor in the Malaysian High Commission in London from 1970 until 1972 and the Chargé d ' affaires in Vientiane from 1974 until 1976.

Before seeking his first and only elective office as Houston ’ s mayor in 1991, he was a gubernatorial appointee to the Texas Highway Commission, which he chaired, and chairman of METRO, Houston ’ s transit authority.

Before entering politics, she was active in feminist organizations such as the Equal Rights and Opportunities Commission, and in community programs such as Place for Kids Daycare.

Before their absorption by the SPC in 2010 and 2011, the South Pacific Applied Geoscience Commission and the South Pacific Board for Educational Assessment had been members, too.

Before the electoral of 1997 and the installation of the Central Election Commission the country consisted of 450 electoral districts ( number of parliamentarians in Verkhovna Rada ).

Before a case can be brought to the Tribunal it must go through several stages of investigation and remediation by the Commission.

Before the federal election of 2004, the Australian Shooters Party was deregistered by the Australian Electoral Commission for failing to contest a federal election for four years.

Before 1954, the Toronto Transit Commission was called the Toronto Transportation Commission.

Before the 1989 series began, the win-loss ratio was almost even, with 87 wins for Australia to England's 86, 74 having been drawn.

Before the 2007 season began, Vick was suspended indefinitely by the NFL after pleading guilty to charges involving dog fighting in the state of Virginia.

Before long, the Spanish began growing cacao beans on plantations, and using an African workforce to help manage them.

Before long, and much to the embarrassment of the authorities, the media began to expose severe social and economic problems the Soviet government had long denied and actively concealed.

Before the 1999 season, fans began discussing Earnhardt's age and speculating that with his son, Dale Jr. getting into racing, Earnhardt might be contemplating retirement.

Before production of the film began, Coppola went to his mentor Roger Corman for advice about shooting in the Philippines, since Corman had filmed several pictures there.

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 long, much to the embarrassment of the authorities, the media began to expose severe social and economic problems which the Soviet government had long denied and covered up.

In addition to conflicts between his Spanish and German inheritances, conflicts of religion would be another source of tension during the reign of Charles V. Before Charles even began his reign in the Holy Roman Empire, in 1517, Martin Luther initiated what would later be known as the Reformation.

Before the military buildup began in fiscal year ( FY ) 1980, United States military assistance to Honduras was less than US $ 4 million.

Later on 1 May, Vice-Admiral Hans-Erich Voss saw Goebbels for the last time: " Before the breakout the bunker began, about ten generals and officers, including myself, went down individually to Goebbels's shelter to say goodbye.

Before the 18th century the Kalevala poetry was common throughout Finland and Karelia but in the 18th century it began to disappear in Finland, first in western Finland, because European rhymed poetry became more common in Finland.

Before the middle of the 20th century, electric and diesel-electric locomotives began replacing steam locomotives.

# Before any custodial interrogation began did the government agents properly advise the defendant of her Miranda rights? If “ Yes ” go to 6 ; If “ No ”, go to 18 ..

Before the cold war began in the late 1940s, Foot favoured a ' third way ' foreign policy for Europe ( he was joint author with Richard Crossman and Ian Mikardo of the pamphlet Keep Left in 1947 ), but in the wake of the communist seizure of power in Hungary and Czechoslovakia he and Tribune took a strongly anti-communist position, eventually embracing NATO.

Before shooting began in the American War of Independence, American revolutionaries took control of the militia system, reinvigorating training and excluding men with Loyalist inclinations.

Before filming started, producer Martin Ransohoff began to receive phone calls about the Major Dundee ordeal and was told Peckinpah was impossible to work with.

Before filming began, several of the film's stars, including Edward Burns, Barry Pepper, Vin Diesel, Adam Goldberg, Giovanni Ribisi, and Tom Hanks, endured ten days of " boot camp " training and work on the film set to prepare for their roles.

Before the 1974 season began, the Padres were on the verge of being sold to Joseph Danzansky, who was planning to move the franchise to Washington, D. C. by the beginning of the 1974 season.

Before his emigration in autumn 1934, Adorno began work on a Singspiel based on Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer entitled The Treasure of Indian Joe, which he would, however, never complete ; by the time he fled Hitler's Germany Adorno had already written over a hundred opera or concert reviews and an additional fifty critiques of music composition.

Before the summer 2006 offensive began, indications existed that soldiers in Afghanistan had lost influence and power to other groups, including potentially the Taliban.

Before Ellison could begin work on the show's production bible, a writers ' strike began, running from March 6 to June 24.

Before any of the scandalous activity became widely known, Harding's popularity began to ebb, but he responded with determination to run for re-election, despite strong support emerging for the very popular Henry Ford for the Democrats.

Before long, Guthrie bought his own harmonica and began playing along with him.

Before the Apollo XI moon landing in 1969, NASA began early studies of space shuttle designs.