Before the 1990s, both the PRC and the ROC claimed to be the legal government of the whole of China and Taiwan.

Before his retirement, Molotov proposed establishing a socialist confederation with the People's Republic of China ( PRC ); Molotov believed socialist states were part of a bigger, supranational entity.

Before the 1949 takeover by the new PRC government, the brewery had been using imported raw material and water from the Laoshan mountain.

Before American recognition of the People's Republic of China ( PRC ) in 1979, the PRC lobby was practically nonexistent ; since that time, the PRC lobby has gradually strengthened, and by the 1990s, " China lobby " began usually referring to special interest groups acting on behalf of the PRC.

Before joining the PRC, he was a member of Proletarian Democracy ( and was a member of its National Secretariat in the 1980s ).

Before the handover, they were not eligible for any kinds of PRC passports.

Before the 1992 Republican National Convention, Kemp and six prominent Republican conservatives prepared a controversial memo urging Bush to revise his economic policy.

Before approving the new constitution, the Constitutional Convention specified the name by which the body politic would be known.

Before joining the Libertarian Party in 2000, Irv Rubin was an active Republican, and served as a page at the 1964 Republican National Convention, at which Barry Goldwater was nominated to run for the presidency.

Before the Constitutional Convention, Morris lived in Philadelphia where he worked as a merchant for some time.

*" Federation Will Review Its Structure Before Convention Set for July 2005.

Before the end of his first term, the new document was completed, submitted to the Convention, and ratified as law on 24 June 1793.

Before the 2000 Democratic Convention, Coelho became ill and resigned his position as General Campaign Chairman.

Before his gubernatorial campaigns he won a race only once: delegate to the 1944 Democratic National Convention.

Before his famous MTV appearance, Bill Clinton played an impromptu concert for students at an off-campus party for the 1988 Convention.

Before the album was complete, he produced a handful of cassette copies with the same title under the name Alexakis for distribution at the Gavin Convention.

Before her death in 1994, Glaser entered the national spotlight as a speaker at the 1992 Democratic National Convention.

Before the 1892 Democratic National Convention, Cook County Democrats held a convention and endorsed Senator Palmer for President.

Before the war ended, Britain made two concerted efforts to implement the Act, one in May 1916 after the Easter Rising and again during 1917 – 1918, but during the Irish Convention the Irish sides ( Nationalist, Unionist ) were unable to agree on terms for the temporary or permanent exclusion of Ulster from its provisions.

Before the Montgomery Convention could accomplish anything, it required a set of guidelines to follow.

Before the start of the pre-show, the television monitors describe other events taking place at the Tomorrowland Interplanetary Convention Center, including " Mission to Mars: History or Hoax " ( a tribute to the attraction that previously occupied the Alien Encounter's space ), " Championship Pet Show " (" because when it comes to your space pet, what goes down must not come up "), and " The Walt Disney Company's Pan Galactic Stock Holders Meeting " ( featuring a holographic transmission from " Lunar Disneyland — The Happiest Place Off Earth ").

Taken together, the two instruments should substantially enhance the global framework for compensation well beyond that foreseen by existing Conventions. Before the action in September 1997, the international liability regime was embodied primarily in two instruments, i. e. the Vienna Convention on Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage of 1963 and the Paris Convention on Third Party Liability in the Field of Nuclear Energy of 1960 linked by the Joint Protocol adopted in 1988.

Before the RISC philosophy became prominent, many computer architects tried to bridge the so called semantic gap, i. e. to design instruction sets that directly supported high-level programming constructs such as procedure calls, loop control, and complex addressing modes, allowing data structure and array accesses to be combined into single instructions.

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 ).

Before the advent of computer filter synthesis tools, graphical tools such as Bode plots and Nyquist plots were extensively used as design tools.

Before the development of the general-purpose computer, most calculations were done by humans.

Before the computer age, this was accomplished by the card catalogue — a cabinet ( or multiple cabinets ) containing many drawers filled with index cards that identified books and other materials.

Before the computer mass storage era, most RTTY stations stored text on paper tape using paper tape punchers and readers.

Before text editors existed, computer text was punched into punched cards with keypunch machines.

Before printer's magenta was invented in the 1890s for CMYK printing, and electric magenta was invented in the 1980s for computer displays, these two artificially engineered colors were preceded by the color displayed at right, which is the color originally called fuchsine made from coal tar dyes in the year 1859.

The distinctive appearance of Triceratops has led to them being frequently depicted in films, computer games and documentaries, including the Don Bluth film The Land Before Time, which featured a young Triceratops as a main character, the 1993 film Jurassic Park and the 1999 BBC television documentary Walking with Dinosaurs.

Before the advent of integrated circuits, this method allowed the highest possible component packing density ; because of this, it was used by a number of computer vendors including Control Data Corporation.

Before the advent of personal computers such as the Apple II and the IBM Personal Computer ( IBM PC ), the computer market was dominated by costly mainframes and minicomputers equipped with dumb terminals that time-shared processing time of the central computer.

Before the advent of LCD screens, most computer screens were based on cathode ray tubes ( CRTs ).

Before long, IBM had the best-selling personal computer in the world and at least two of the next-best sellers were, for practical purposes, identical.

Before the introduction of the iPad, Axiotron introduced the Modbook, a heavily modified Apple MacBook, Mac OS X-based tablet computer at Macworld in 2007.

Before the computer era, plaintext most commonly meant message text in the language of the communicating parties.

Before the VS, however, Wang Laboratories was not taken seriously as a computer company.

Before computer generated imagery special effects, these effects were limited to the use of models, false perspective and other in-camera effects, unless the creator could find someone willing to jump from car to car or hang from the edge of a skyscraper: the stunt performer or stunt double.

Before settling in another businesses, contributors to the development of the Svet kompjutera were the following individuals: Stanko Popović ( working independently in computer business ), Stanko Stojiljković ( editor in Ekspres daily newspaper ), Sergej Marcenko ( marketing editor in political weekly magazine NIN ), Andrija Kolundžić ( working independently in computer business in Tokyo, Japan ), Aleksandar Radovanovic ( working at the University of Pretoria, Republic of South Africa ), Voja Antonić, Dragoslav Jovanović ( working at the Belgrade University ), Jovan Puzovic ( working at the Belgrade University ), Nenad Balint ( working in IT company in United Kingdom ), Aleksandar Petrović ( manager of a software company in Canada ), Dalibor Lanik ( working as a programmer in Czech Republic ) and many others.

Before Quantum Link, Apple computer had developed its own service, called AppleLink, which was mostly a support network targeted at Apple dealers and developers.

Before she entered Intelligent Systems ( an internal video game developer for Nintendo ), Tsujiyoko worked as a computer programmer for a productivity ( or non-entertainment ) software company.

Before the 1999 – 2000 season, five more computer rankings were added to the system: Richard Billingsley, Richard Dunkel, Kenneth Massey, Herman Matthews / Scripps Howard, and David Rothman.

Before Garibaldi is reprogrammed, he stalls by getting the programmer, Daniel, to reveal his faction's plans to launch a sneak attack on civilian population centers as the start of an all-out war while Garibaldi, who is aware that he is a computer program, hacks into the computer network and broadcasts the conversation.