Earlier strips did engage in a degree of low-key political satire ( for instance, a series of strips in 1992 where Dogbert runs for President ), but since the early 1990s Adams has mostly focused the strip on corporate issues.

Earlier in the century, Norris had played on one of hockey's early powers, the Montreal HC, nicknamed the " Winged Wheelers.

Earlier, in the 17th century, rich ore deposits were discovered in the mountains and their systematic extraction began in the early 18th century, eventually turning the region into the largest mineral base of Russia.

Earlier writings regarding the early days of Midland refer to a Staup farm located on the present site of the town.

Earlier newspapers for the community were the weekly Suburban Times ( 1970s ), published by Dave Sclair ( who, starting in 1970, also published Western Flyer ); and, in the 1980s, the Lakewood Press, published by Grace T. Eubanks and later Dane S. Claussen, which launched the University Place Press as a monthly and then biweekly before it folded in early 1989.

Earlier influences come from the story of the sleeping Brynhild in the Volsunga saga and the tribulations of saintly female martyrs in early Christian hagiography conventions.

Earlier, Guatemala had been a state within the United Provinces of Central America since 1823, before that part of the First Mexican Empire under Agustín de Iturbide, and before 1821 ruled by the Captain General of Guatemala, a Spanish colonial official owing allegiance to the Viceroy of New Spain and the King of Spain, back to the Spanish conquest of the region in the early 16th century.

Earlier recordings of the band are reminiscent of early Joy Division, while later songs embodied a less blunt approach with more exploratory arrangements and riffage.

Earlier, a slew of assassinations in both the Akbar and Hataman camps, most prominently an Akbar henchman and two Hataman cousins, commenced early in 2008.

Earlier the election was widely expected to be a relatively easy romp for Martin to a fourth consecutive Liberal majority government, but early in 2004 Liberal popularity fell sharply due to the sponsorship scandal.

Earlier town privileges are not known, but probable, because Bratislava has been called a " town " as early as around 1250.

Earlier Mormons had practiced conventional Protestant-type prayer circles at least as early as 1833.

Earlier Aviion models used the Motorola 88000 CPU, but later models moved to an all-Intel solution when Motorola stopped work on the 88000 in the early 1990s.

Earlier in 1797, he described his age to George Washington vaguely: " Born Sir at a period, when every American Breast palpitated for freedom, I became early attached to civil Liberty ...."

Earlier, Sabatier had already observed the hydrogenolysis of benzyl alcohol to toluene, and as early as 1906, Padoa and Ponti had observed the hydrogenolysis of furfuryl alcohol.

Earlier in the film, Stiles is diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's disease, something that will end his political career.

Earlier attempts to release some of these early Beatles songs on the Vee-Jay label in the summer of 1963 failed to chart in America.

Earlier in the game, the Titans jumped to an early 14-0 lead with touchdowns from Eddie George and Steve McNair before the Steelers converted three turnovers into 20 points.

Earlier, he had been the private secretary to the Viceroy of India and Governor of the North-West Frontier Province, thus Penelope was born in Peshawar and spent her early years in India, where three of her siblings died in childhood.

Newly-issued CRSids are at least five characters long, with between two and six initials followed by a number ( increasing with each person sharing the given initials ) of at least one digit, the first of which is not 1 in order to avoid confusion with the letter L. Earlier schemes used different rules to determine the number, and some early CRSids had no number.

Earlier, Panagal Raja, Chief Minister of Madras Presidency in early 1920s had suggested that the Cooum River be the boundary between the Tamil and Telugu administrative areas.

Earlier versions of the tune, a New Orleans boogie piano riff, can be heard throughout the early 30s and 40s the earliest of all being " Cow Cow Blues " from Charles " Cow Cow " Davenport in 1928.

Earlier mentions of that name date from 1633 ( in the vicinity of Našice ), the early 18th century ( in the vicinity of Đakovo ), and by the writer Antun Kanižlić in 1757.

Earlier in the 1970s, Conservative prime minister Edward Heath ( elected in 1970 ) had attempted to reduce trade union powers due to the rising level of strikes across the country.

Earlier versions of this general idea date back to the 50s and exactly the same design occurs in implementations done during the 1960s and 1970s.

Earlier work, including Luis Buñuel's 1933 Land Without Bread, Orson Welles's 1938 radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds, various April Fool's Day news reports, and vérité style film and television during the 1960s and 1970s, served as precursor to the genre.

Earlier remote controls in the 1970s used ultrasonic tones.

Earlier, it was difficult to manage even the three editions of the 1970s ( Vishakhapatnam, Vijayawada and Hyderabad ) because the only communication facilities were the telegram, telephone and teleprinter, which had limited presence in rural Andhra Pradesh.

Earlier the church hall, situated behind St John's Church, was used, until the current village hall was built in the 1970s.

Earlier equipment ( 1970s ) often used UHF connectors.

Earlier in the 20th century, divided government was rare, but since the 1970s it has become increasingly common.

Earlier, this woman had been so filled with a chaotic variety of introjects that at times, when she was in her room alone, it would sound to a passerby as though there were several different persons in the room, as she would vocalize in various kinds of voice.

Earlier in the year, Alison Wakefield married Kevin Webster after discovering she was pregnant with his child.

Earlier in 1988-89, ( as Brigadier ) Musharraf proposed a Kargil infiltration to Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto but she rebuffed the plan.

Earlier that year, she starred in HouseSitter, a screwball comedy with Steve Martin, which was a commercial and critical success.

Earlier in the documentary, Lopes mentioned that she felt the presence of a " spirit " following her, and was struck by the fact that the child killed in the accident shared her last name, even thinking that the spirit may have made a mistake by taking his life instead of hers.

Earlier in 1993, for Midge's 30th anniversary, a Midge reproduction doll was also produced, but she did not possess a reproduction of her original swimsuit or the original box.

Earlier in the fourth season, she had a boyfriend named Oz ( Seth Green ), who left after sleeping with another woman.

Earlier that morning, she had reportedly called her psychiatrist saying that she felt down.

Earlier, Freeman had been so angered by Minkow's behavior that she called him a liar in open court, a rarity for a judge.

Earlier, in the spring and summer of 1968, she attended fundraisers set up by her mother to aid the Haight-Ashbury Free Medical Clinic.

Earlier, when she was 21, her fiance had been killed by Israeli security forces.

Earlier, she had written the article “ The Thought of Mao Tse-Tung ” and the book Dawn Out of China, reporting that his intellectual accomplishment was “ to change Marxism from a European to an Asiatic form ... in ways of which neither Marx nor Lenin could dream ”, which the Soviet government banned in the USSR.

Earlier that day in a telephone interview with the journalists Paul DeMain and Harlan McKosato about the upcoming press conference, Minnie Two Shoes had said, speaking of the importance of Aquash ," Part of why she was so important is because she was very symbolic, she was a hard working woman, she dedicated her life to the movement, to righting all the injustices that she could, and to pick somebody out and launch their little cointelpro program on her to bad jacket her to the point where she ends up dead, whoever did it, let ’ s look at what the reasons are, you know, she was killed and lets look at the real reasons why it could have been any of us, it could have been me, it could have been, ya gotta look at the basically thousands of women, you gotta remember that it was mostly women in AIM, it could have been any one of us and I think that ’ s why it ’ s been so important and she was just such a good person.

Earlier, she was the Lieutenant Governor under Marc Racicot from 1997-2001.

Earlier she had nationalized the country's largest newspaper, Lake House, which has remained the government's official mouthpiece.