Before declaring bankruptcy in 2008, Lehman was the fourth largest investment bank in the US ( behind Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and Merrill Lynch ), doing business in investment banking, equity and fixed-income sales and trading ( especially U. S. Treasury securities ), research, investment management, private equity, and private banking.

" Before the collapse, the fishery was one of the most productive in the world due to the upwelling of cold, yet nutrient-rich water from the bottom of the Pacific Ocean that is funneled to the surface via the vast underwater Monterey Canyon.

Before an understanding of decoherence was developed the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics treated wavefunction collapse as a fundamental, a priori process.

Before it was announced, or indeed before she was even informed of the plan, a mix-up led to the collapse of the arrangement.

Before the present general relativistic cosmological model was developed, Albert Einstein proposed a way to dynamically stabilize a cosmological scenario that would necessarily collapse in on itself due to the gravitational attraction of the matter constituents in the universe.

Before year 2000 some survivalists wrongly believed this process would be set in motion by the predicted Y2K problem causing societal collapse.

Before the old bridge was demolished and hauled away in barges, MacIntire ( the sole survivor of the collapse ) was the last person permitted to drive over it.

Before that they were solely Muslim subjects of Russia, and the Empire continued this attitude to its very collapse.

Before the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, the British-controlled Turkish Petroleum Company ( TPC ) had held concessionary rights to the Mosul wilaya ( province ).

Before the collapse of the structure, it was said to be aligned with the cardinal directions ( north, south, east, and west ).

Before his work, the cathedral had been in imminent danger of collapse as it sank slowly into the ground, which consisted of peat.

Before WCW's collapse, she engaged in a brief feud with Torrie Wilson and Shane Douglas, who defeated her and partner Billy Kidman at Fall Brawl in a Mixed Tag Team Scaffold match.

Before long news about the collapse of the Executive spread across Northern Ireland, sparking uproarious scenes in Protestant areas ..

Before the DNS was invented in 1982, each computer on the network retrieved a file called HOSTS. TXT from a computer at SRI ( now SRI International ).

Philby found that the award proved helpful in obtaining access to fascist circles: " Before then ," he later wrote, " there had been a lot of criticism of British journalists from Franco officers who seemed to think that the British in general must be a lot of Communists because so many were fighting with the International Brigades.

* Van Diemen's Land is mentioned in Umberto Eco's novel " The Island of the Day Before " (" L ' isola del giorno prima ", 1994 ), a story about a 17th century Italian nobleman trapped at an island at the International Date Line.

* Vincent Giordano, Before the Flame Goes Out: A Document of the Romaniote Jews of Ioannina and New York, sponsored by The International Survey of Jewish Monuments.

Before the construction of Waterloo International terminal in 1990, the vehicles were hoisted individually by the Armstrong lift outside the north wall of Waterloo main line station.

Before its dissolution it was headquartered at Miami International Airport in unincorporated Miami-Dade County, Florida.

Before being fully integrated in the 2011 season, it was also used in 2010 races at Michigan International Speedway, Richmond International Raceway and Charlotte Motor Speedway.

Before it merged with Delta Air Lines it was headquartered at Los Angeles International Airport.

Before she became famous, she earned titles in several beauty contests, including holding the titles of Miss Louisiana USA 1975 for Miss USA and that of Miss Louisiana for both the Miss World and the Miss International pageants.

History of the Montagnard / Degar People: Their Struggle for Survival and Rights Before International Law.

* Essays on Thus Spoke Zarathustra: Before Sunrise, edited by James Luchte, London: Continuum International Publishing Group, 2008.

* NFPA ( 2006 ), " NFPA 160 ; Standard for Flame Effects Before an Audience " NFPA International

What was never in dispute, however, was that the OT used millions of forced laborers ( Zwangsarbeiter ) from the occupied countries of the Reich during World War II, and that the judging panel at the Nuremberg Trials ( formally, the " Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Court ") in 1946 sentenced Speer to 20 years ' imprisonment for having headed this organisation and thus sanctioned the international illegal use of forced labor.

Before the symbol was standardized as da with the introduction of the International System of Units in 1960, various other symbols were more common, such as " dk ", " D ", and " Da ".

Before the release of the first Iron & Wine album, Beam's main source of income was as a professor of film and cinematography at the University of Miami and Miami International University of Art & Design.

Before it got its International designation in 1975, Indianapolis's primary commercial air passenger and cargo facility was called Weir-Cook Municipal Airport, after Col. Harvey Weir-Cook

The date line is a central factor in Umberto Eco's book The Island of the Day Before ( 1994 ), in which the protagonist finds himself on a becalmed ship, with an island close at hand on the other side of the International Date Line.

Before entering political life, Martel studied International Politics at the University of Toronto and French at the Sorbonne.

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

Before joining the Labour Party at the age of 23 in 1977, Darling was a supporter of the International Marxist Group, the British section of the Trotskyist Fourth International.

Before this date, however, the United States had already taken a leading role in the creation of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development ( now part of the World Bank Group ) and the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ), both established in 1944, and in the United Nations in 1945.

Before coming to WMA, Limato was a partner and co-president at International Creative Management for more than a decade, from 1988 to 1999.

Before becoming an MP, King was on the European Parliament's Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee, and worked as a political assistant to Glyn Ford MEP, the Labour Party Leader in the European Parliament, and later Glenys Kinnock MEP.

Before entering politics, he worked at the New Zealand Treasury and the International Monetary Fund, and later became a financial consultant.

Before becoming a member of the Board, he served on its staff as Adviser to the Board for Monetary Policy ( 2001-02 ), Secretary of the Federal Open Market Committee ( 1987-2002 ), Director of the Division of Monetary Affairs ( 1987-2001 ), and Deputy Staff Director for Monetary and Financial Policy ( 1983-87 ).

Before that, he was a member of the board of the International Monetary Fund ( 1980 – 1993 ) and member of the Board of Directors of the World Bank ( 1979 – 1980 ) and Minister Delegate to the Prime Minister of Morocco, in charge of affairs Economic, from 1993 to 1995.

Before 1946, he had headed the New York Board of Rabbis, the Jewish National Fund, and the Zionist Organization of America, and helped found the National Conference of Christians and Jews.

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Before her death, she left instructions for the foundation and since then it has two headquarters, the Prize administered from Milan, the Fund from Zurich.