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Earlier that month, he had established a new mile world record of 3: 48. 8 and two weeks later equalled Sebastian Coe's world record of 3: 32. 1 in the 1500 m. The Moscow Olympics marked only the second time that Ovett and Coe had met each other in international competition ( the first being the 800 m in the 1978 European Championships ) and there was huge media speculation over which would emerge as the greater.
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Earlier this month Edward R. Murrow, director of the United States Information Agency, came to Hollywood and had dinner with more than 100 leaders of the motion picture industry.
Earlier this month Sudan and Eritrea agreed to abolish entry visa requirements, opening their common borders for free movement of both nationals.
Earlier that month, Wise suffered two heart attacks within a week while on holiday, and had to undergo a triple heart bypass in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on 22 January 1999.
Earlier in the month, Lord had cancelled a performance of his Durham Concerto in Germany for what his website said was a continuation of his medical treatment.
Earlier this month, the MoD agreed to pay almost £ 3m in compensation to Mr Mousa's family and nine Iraqi men after admitting breaching human rights ".
Earlier that month Ukraine's Prosecutor General Viktor Pshonka had stated that there were no political reasons for the interrogations of the opposition leaders Tymoshenko, Lutsenko and Oleksandr Turchynov.
( Earlier in the month, on April 5, 1865, Seward had been injured in a carriage accident, and suffered a concussion, a broken jaw, a broken right arm, and many serious bruises.
Earlier studies reported a prevalence rate between 1 %- 2 % in a clinical setting, however a study done by Coccaro and colleagues in 2004 had reported about 11. 1 % lifetime prevalence and 3. 2 % one month prevalence in a sample of a moderate number of individuals ( n = 253 ).
Earlier the same month the opposition Social Democrats took to the streets to protest the changing of hundreds of street names, including a bridge that was to be named after Aleksandrov.
Earlier that month Strong Ukraine had announced the same move.
Earlier and had
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 the APG had used the name Alliaceae for this group .).
Earlier amnesties, requiring signed oaths and excluding certain classes of people, had been issued by Lincoln and by Johnson.
Earlier Andronikos III had effected the recovery of the islands of Lesbos and Chios from Martino Zaccaria in 1329 ( although the island remained under Benedetto III Zaccaria until 1330 ) and of Phocaea in 1334 from the last Genoese governor Domenico Cattaneo.
Earlier, Gongshan had approached Confucius to join him, which Confucius considered at first.
Earlier in 1961, a Television Audience Measurement ( TAM ) showed that 75 % of available viewers ( 15 million ) tuned into Corrie and by 1964 the programme had over 20 million regular viewers, with ratings peaking on 2 December 1964, at 21. 36 million viewers.
Earlier in the year, 13-year-old Sarah-Louise Platt ( Tina O ' Brien ) had become pregnant and given birth to a baby girl, Bethany, on 4 June.
Earlier, Dai had been involved with the Blue Shirts Society, a fascist-inspired paramilitary group within the Kuomintang, which wanted to expel Western and Japanese imperialists, crush the Communists, and eliminate feudalism.
Earlier British clipper ships had become known as extreme clippers, and were considered to be " as sharp as the American " built ships.
" Earlier, in December 1984, the Council on Hemispheric Affairs had issued a report condemning the Contras and the United States government as being among the worst human rights violators in Latin America: " The CIA directed forces are among the worst human rights violators in Latin America, responsible for systematic brutality against a civilian population.
Earlier dragoon responsibilities for scouting and picket duty had passed to hussars and similar light cavalry corps in the French, Austrian, Prussian, and other armies.
Earlier in the century, Norris had played on one of hockey's early powers, the Montreal HC, nicknamed the " Winged Wheelers.
Earlier in the year the band had performed at one of the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics victory concerts at Whistler Medals Plaza and donated a collection of objects to the Ohio Historical Society including an energy dome, jumpsuit, stickers, and t-shirts.
Earlier, the Scottish philosopher David Hume had put forward a similar view on the difference between facts and values.
Earlier, the emperors had married women from families of the government-holding Soga lords, and women of the imperial clan itself, i. e. various-degree cousins and often even their own sisters ( half-sisters ).
Earlier Imperial sponsorship of Buddhism, beginning with Prince Shōtoku ( 574 – 622 ), had led to a general politicization of the clergy, along with an increase in intrigue and corruption.
Earlier constituent assemblies had written thirteen constitutions ( only ten of which had entered into force ), and the latest had been adopted in 1924.
Earlier pedal harps had a single-action mechanism that allowed strings to play sharpened notes.
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 that year, Francis Baring and Company of London had become the U. S. government's official banking agent in London.
Earlier submersible work had yielded dismal results.
Earlier, the two of them had also been caught in an attempt to assassinate Nasir when he was president and had been tried and imprisoned before being released in 1975.
Earlier and established
Earlier, the guilds of writers had denounced the printing press as " the Devil's Invention ", and were responsible for a 53-year lag between its invention by Johannes Gutenberg in Europe in c. 1440 and its introduction to the Ottoman society with the first Gutenberg press in Istanbul that was established by the Sephardic Jews of Spain in 1493 ( who had migrated to the Ottoman Empire a year earlier, escaping from the Spanish Inquisition of 1492.
Earlier in that year he claimed for the public the right of printing an account of parliamentary debates, and after a long struggle, the right was definitely established.
* Earlier versions of the story established that Sonny was the artist who created the mural from which the nine goddess sisters emerge.
Earlier studies also established the links between interpersonal violence and animal cruelty.
Earlier in late 1638, Roger Williams, Clarke's compatriot in the cause of religious freedom in the New World, had established a Baptist church in Providence, Rhode Island, known as First Baptist Church in America.
Earlier in his life, he had established the first magnetic observatory.
Earlier on, Hamilton had established a Marine Hospital on Bedloe's Island, future site of the Statue of Liberty.
Earlier observations described an average radiant of RA = 217 deg, DEC =+ 76 deg, with maximum occurring at a solar longitude of 270. 66 deg ( about December 22 ), with the duration being established as December 17 – 24.
Earlier serological typing approaches had been established for differentiating bacterial isolates, but immunological typing has drawbacks such as reliance on few antigenic loci and unpredictable reactivities of antibodies with different antigenic variants.
Earlier known as Jagirdar College, it was established in 1923 as a school exclusively for the sons of jagirdars and other aristrocats.
Earlier settlements upriver at Gaspereau, and downriver at the Range, existed prior to 1820, consisting of local settlers and Maine businessmen who established the first sawmills on the Salmon and Gaspereau Rivers.
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