Prior to 1960, in order to provide matching for the minimum ( base ) allotment, State funds had to equal 1954 State funds.

Prior to and since 1960 the rest of the support allotment is matched at rates related to the fiscal capacity of the State, with a pivot of 40% State ( or 60% Federal ) participation in total program costs.

Prior to 1960, the creator of these stories remained a mystery to his readers.

Prior to a manned spaceflight, the Soviets launched several precursor unmanned missions between May 1960 and March 1961, to test and develop the Vostok rocket and Vostok spacecraft technology.

Prior to the 1960 Democratic National Convention, Stevenson announced that he was not seeking the Democratic nomination for president, but would accept a draft.

Prior to the launch of Major League Soccer in 1996, teams from Los Angeles played in the Western American Soccer League, the North American Soccer League and the American Soccer League / A-League, winning ten league championships ( 1955, 1957, 1958, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1974, 1976 ), seven Lamar Hunt US Open Cups ( 1958, 1964, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1978, 1981 ), four regional championships ( 1955, 1956, 1958, 1961 ) and one international championship ( 1975 ).

Prior to the All Blacks ' tour of South Africa in 1960, 150, 000 New Zealanders signed a petition supporting a policy of " No Maoris, No Tour ".

Prior to 1960, the U. S. had never had a Catholic president.

* John Prior ( b. 1960 ), Australian musician

Prior to 1960, the Production Engineering Research Association of Great Britain ( PERA ) came to the town on Nottingham Road and employed around four hundred people in supporting research and development in industry.

Prior to The Wild Wild West, Ross Martin co-starred in the CBS series Mr. Lucky from 1959 to 1960, portraying Mr. Lucky's sidekick, Andamo.

Prior to 2002 its name was written Baie-d ' Urfé ( no capital " d "); prior to 1960 its name was officially spelled Baie-d ' Urfée.

Prior to 1960, Victoria Jubilee Technical Institute was the only Institute offering Engineering degree and Post Graduate courses under the University of Bombay and enjoyed defacto autonomy.

Prior to Amicus being created the two producers collaborated on the 1960 horror film The City of the Dead, and Amicus went on to make a series of portmanteau horror anthologies, inspired by the Ealing Studios film Dead of Night.

Prior to the 1960 census, the Census Bureau had enumerators visit each household in the United States to have them fill out a questionnaire.

Prior to 1960 such certificates gave no cause of death.

Prior to entering game shows, Eubanks was a popular radio DJ at station KRLA 1110 in Los Angeles as well as a music promoter and manager, between 1960 and 1968.

The shortest mandate by a Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia was Edward Gawler Prior, from 1919 to his death in 1920, while the longest was George Pearkes, from October 1960 to July 1968.

Prior to the establishment of the First Republic in 1960, the native Congolese elites had formed semi-political organizations which gradually evolved into the main parties striving for independence.

Prior to the development of the Edwardsville campus, six " Divisions of Academic Programs " were established for the SIU Residential Centers in Alton and East St. Louis on March 4, 1960.

Prior to this 1960 publication, there was no standard, consistent way of romanizing placenames in the territory, which, predictably, often led to confusion.

Prior to the military take over, multi-party elections were held in 1951 – 1952, 1956 and 1960.

Prior to the 1960 season, McDowell signed with the Indians for a $ 75, 000 bonus.

Prior to gaining recognition as an independent breed in 1960, it was a variety of the Norwich Terrier, distinguished from the " prick eared " Norwich by its " drop ears " ( or folded ears ).

Prior to 2006, off-premises alcohol sales were forbidden until noon on Sundays, and liquor / wine stores were required to be closed the entire day.

Prior to the actual brewing of the liquor, a small batch of grain is prepared to produce the seed mash ( 酒母 ; pinyin: jiǔ mǔ ).

Prior to the exclusion, Simonsen had faced scrutiny due to a Rikets Tilstand documentary on TV2, alleging that he had used his position as representative to help a friend obtain a liquor license.

Prior to this point, the fur trade had relied on Indians to do the actual trapping and hunting that produced the furs ; they were then brought to trading posts where, with increasing frequency, the Indians were given liquor both as an actual medium of exchange, and in order to render them pliant and easily cheated.

Prior to the " mutiny ", Caldwell had been charged over his involvement in an alcohol racket on Morotai, where liquor was flown in by RAAF aircraft and then sold to the sizable U. S. forces contingent in the locality.

Prior to this, only two land sales had been recorded, both for lumbering or speculative purposes.

Prior to completion of I-35, traffic was routed directly through town ; generating significant sales revenue to many retailers which literally had a major highway running directly past their doors.

Prior to the establishment of the SSP, a number of SSP members were subject to warrant sales after refusing to pay the Poll Tax.

Prior to the ascendancy of Anwar Sadat to president of Egypt in 1970, the Middle East had been an important arena in the global superpower competition, most lucidly displayed in the arms sales and cooperation between the American and Soviet governments with Israel, Saudi Arabia, and Iran allied to The United States, and Egypt, Syria, and Iraq allied with the Soviet Union.

Prior to the settlement, Thompson and Mainline filed an answer indicating over 30 defences and over 10 counterclaims alleging improprieties and perjury in documents filed with the court to obtain a restraining order restricting sales as well as misrepresenting the terms of the order in the plaintiff Thomas Reilly's press releases, which incorrectly stated that Reilly had froze the company's assets and obtained an order to refund customers.

Prior to this, businesses often record the details of negotiations by using a request for quotation, request for bid, sales quotation, or sales bid.

Prior to Nielsen SoundScan, RIAA certification was the only audited and verifiable system for tracking music sales in the U. S .; it is still the only system capable of tracking 100 % of sales ( albeit as shipments less returns, not actual sales like Nielsen SoundScan ).

Prior to the building of the town and before the dockyard was thought of, various sales and exchanges took place between the principal local landowners-the Adams, Owen and Meyrick families.

Prior to the Southcorp buy out, Hoover Australia operated as a US subsidiary with its own administration, sales and marketing, large maintenance and engineering departments, a service division and a much larger production workforce.

Prior to that, Metcalfe managed advertising sales for the Amsterdam-based Electric Word magazine.

Prior to his time IBM had primarily emphasized the sales organization, with a reasonable range of products.

Prior to working at Ford he served as Executive Vice President of sales at BMW for three years, and he takes some credit in the development of the BMW 3-Series.

Prior to the take over, sales had been falling at a rate of 6 %, a figure that Tesco reversed to a growth of 20 % by February 1996 and the former Wm Low stores contributed £ 11 million profit to the Tesco group.

Prior to December 2009, ownership of CAMI was split 49-51 % between Suzuki and General Motors of Canada Ltd., the former of which withdrew from the venture after poor sales of its CAMI-manufactured models.

Prior to this, only radio airplay and physical singles sales were used to determine positions.

Prior to its inclusion in the trailer, it was " a version of that song that never seemed to get any notice ", but as Corgan ultimately discovered, " the massive jump in online sales seems to indicate it might be worth it for us and for the movie ".

Prior to founding GHF, Morgan worked as an international sales and marketing executive in software and network computing, including at Hewlett-Packard and Sun Microsystems.

Prior to the song's recital at Carey's concert at Madison Square Garden on December 10, 1993 during her Music Box Tour, she announced that the proceeds from the stateside sales of the single were to be donated to the families of the victims of the Long Island Rail Road ( LIRR ) shootings.

Prior to introducing the equity partnership program, the RTC had engaged in outright individual and bulk sales of its asset portfolios.

Prior to this, he had been involved in radio parts sales for some years but decided that the time was right for a handcrafted amateur radio receiver-the company name being a combination of Halli ( gan ) and ( hand ) crafters.