Prior to Red Hat, Young built a couple of computer rental and leasing businesses, including founding Vernon Computer Rentals in 1984.

Prior to the December 1984 coup that brought Taya to power, the Mauritanian-Moroccan cooperation agency stated that relations between the two countries were on the mend in spite of alleged Moroccan complicity in a 1981 coup attempt and Mauritania's subsequent turn toward Algeria.

Prior to its affiliation with The Greens – European Free Alliance, the SNP had previously been allied with the European Progressive Democrats ( until 1984 ), Rainbow Group ( 1989 – 1994 ) and European Radical Alliance ( 1994 – 1999 ).

Prior to its breakup in 1984, Bell System's legal monopoly over telephony in the United States allowed the company to impose strict rules on how consumers could access their network.

Prior to 1984 the EPA reported the exact fuel economy figures calculated from the test.

Prior to the Live Aid concert, in November 1984 Sting performed " Do They Know It's Christmas?

Prior to 1984 Almere had an Adviesraad, which was chosen every 2 years ( 1978 – 1980, 1980 – 1982, 1982 – 1984 ).

Prior to the introduction of a new city charter on June 20, 1984, council members in Windom were referred to as alderpersons.

In a 1984 United States District Court ruling, the court affirmed that the municipal boundary of the City of Prior Lake did include the tribal lands in question.

& Gerton, M. I., " Origins of the Term Hypnotism Prior to Braid ", American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, Vol. 27, No. 2, ( October 1984 ), pp. 107 – 110.

Prior to the building's completion in 1984, Music & Art ( a / k / a " The Castle on the Hill ") was located on Convent Avenue and 135th Street in what has since become part of City College ( CCNY )' s South Campus ; the building is home to A. Philip Randolph High School.

Prior to Simon's learning the song, Bob Dylan had borrowed the melody and several lines from Carthy's arrangement in creating his song, " Girl from the North Country ", which appeared on The Freewheelin ' Bob Dylan ( 1963 ), Nashville Skyline ( 1969 ) ( together with Johnny Cash ), Real Live ( 1984 ) and The 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration ( 1993 ).

Prior to 1984, Olympic football was an amateur event, meaning that only non-professional players could participate.

Prior to the Bell System divestiture on January 1, 1984, American Telephone & Telegraph Company ( AT & T ) through its Bell System companies held a natural monopoly for telephone service within the United States.

Prior to 1984, the 5251 monitor predominated-it was US $ 2, 000 and what IBM called " dual color " ( green and white ).

Prior to 1984, the former Bastille railway station stood where the opera house now stands.

Prior to the 1984 season, their clubhouse ravaged by drug problems, the Royals started disassembling their team and starting over.

Prior to 1984, Canada was seen as having a dominant-party system led by the Liberal Party while Progressive Conservative governments therefore were considered by many of these pundits as caretaker governments, doomed to fall once the collective mood of the electorate shifted and the federal Liberal Party eventually came back to power.

Prior to then, the AT & T Long Lines division of the Bell System, which was what AT & T called itself when it was responsible for providing both long distance and local telephone service before the 1984 breakup, provided maintenance and installation of long line facilities for the Bell System's long distance service.

In September 1981, Prior became Secretary of State for Northern Ireland and was in this office until September 1984.

Prior to the 1993 – 94 academic year, Jacksonville State competed in NCAA Division II athletics, winning national championships in men's basketball ( 1985 ), baseball ( 1990 and 1991 ), football ( 1992 ) and gymnastics ( 1984 and 1985 ).

Prior to 1984, the route known as I-880 used to be part of State Route 17.

Prior to 1984, the grades of Lieutenant and Member were classified as Members ( fourth class ) and Members ( fifth class ), respectively, but both with the post-nominals MVO.

Prior to 2010, MSNBC was not available to Verizon FiOS and AT & T U-verse TV subscribers in portions of New York, northern New Jersey, and Connecticut that overlapped Cablevision's territory.

Prior to 1986, The Southern New England Telephone Company had been a minority holding of AT & T until February 1986, when AT & T withdrew its 23 % holding.

Prior to the AT & T breakup in 1984, AT & T held 89. 8 % of Pacific Telephone.

Prior to teaching at the University of California, she worked at AT & T Labs, Agilent, and Apple labs.

Prior to joining InterCall, Etzler held executive positions in the voice and data communications industry, with companies such as AT & T, Decision Industries and U. S. Sprint.

Prior to 1976 Unix development at AT & T was a project of a small group of researchers in Department 1127 of Bell Labs.

Prior to the 1968 Carterphone decision, a beige box user additionally risked violating AT & T's prohibition on connecting non-AT & T provided equipment to their network.

Prior to VLSI's cell-based offering, the technology had been primarily available only within large vertically integrated companies with semiconductor units such as AT & T and IBM.

Prior to the name change to Unitel, Rogers Communications acquired a stake in 1984 and later sold to AT & T Canada in 1984.

Prior to the breakup, the broadcast networks relied on AT & T Long Lines ' infrastructure of terrestrial microwave relay, coaxial cable, and, for radio, broadcast-quality leased line networks to deliver their programming to local stations.

Prior to 1984, AT & T held 89. 3 % in Pacific Northwest Bell.

Prior to coming to Stanford, she was in the Artificial Intelligence Research Departments at AT & T Bell Labs and AT & T Labs Research at Murray Hill and Florham Park, respectively.

Prior to the arrival of Skypath, NBC programming, with the exception of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, was delivered via coaxial cable and microwave transmission through the facilities of AT & T ( however, NBC did have limited satellite delivery on an experimental basis via their C-band transponder on Satcom F1 beginning with the satellite's launch in 1975 ).

Prior to 2006, in common with many other Caribbean countries, Cable & Wireless ( Caribbean ) had a statutory monopoly on telephone and other electronic communications services.

" Prior to Draper, Beauchamp & Davidson had also offered a definition which includes these elements, although they offered a somewhat longer account, and one that specifically discounts fetuses in order to distinguish between abortions and euthanasia:

Prior to the Power Mac name change, certain Power Macintosh models were otherwise identical to their lower-cost re-branded siblings sold as the Macintosh LC and Macintosh Performa, as well as the dedicated Apple Workgroup Server and Macintosh Server G3 & G4 lines.

Prior to the Supreme Court's decision in Pollock v. Farmers ' Loan & Trust Co., all income taxes had been considered indirect taxes imposed without respect to geography, unlike direct taxes, that must be apportioned among the states according to population.

Prior to the 1950s, the various stages of the recording and marketing process had been carried out by different professionals within the industry – A & R managers found potential new artists and signed them to their labels ; professional songwriters created new material ; publishing agents sold these songs to the A & R people ; staff engineers carried out the task of making the recordings in company-owned studios.

Prior to 1997, Chatham had been included in the constituencies of Mid Kent, Rochester and Chatham & Chatham.

Prior to 1996, Lauderdale-By-The-Sea Volunteer Fire Department served the town, with Fort Lauderdale Fire-Rescue serving until 2001, with Broward Sheriff's Office Department of Fire Rescue & Emergency services providing fire suppression services to the town from 2001 until 2008.

Prior to completion of the Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad in 1859, the city was minimally developed with cheap frame houses, with little pretense of architectural beauty or design.

Prior to his death, he was collaborating on a project with former Black Sabbath bandmates Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler, and Vinny Appice, under the moniker Heaven & Hell, whose only studio album, The Devil You Know, was released on April 28, 2009.

Prior to " Moondog ", most R & B music was covered by white artists as most radio stations did not feature African-American artists.

Prior to confirmation of the merger, the GN & SR had sought permission to extend its line southwards from the future junction of Kingsway and Aldwych, under Norfolk Street to a new interchange under the Metropolitan District Railway's station at Temple.

Prior to founding Blum Capital, Blum was with Sutro & Co. for seventeen years, holding various positions including director, major stockholder and member of the executive committee.

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Prior to this, the service was operated by Rapid Transit, Inc., which began bus service in Winthrop on January 28, 1940, the day immediately following the abandonment of the former Boston, Revere Beach & Lynn " Narrow Gauge " Railroad.

Prior to politics, Pettigrew was Vice-President of Samson Bélair / Deloitte & Touche in Montreal from 1985 to 1995, where he acted as a business consultant to companies with dealings in international markets.

Prior to this group's formation, another group called The Kingsmen operated in 1958 and was made up of members of Bill Haley & His Comets who were moonlighting from their regular work with Haley.

Prior to dedicating his professional life to politics, Hagen was CEO at Tate & Lyle Norway from 1970 to 1974, Consultant of Finansanalyse from 1977 to 1979, and economic policy consultant in the oil industry from 1979 to 1981.