Prior to his inauguration, he led a meeting of advisors at Pearl Harbor addressing foremost issues ; agreed objectives were to balance the budget during his term, to bring the Korean War to an end, to defend vital interests at lower cost through nuclear deterrent, and to end price and wage controls.

Prior to his work on the saxophone, Sax made several improvements to the bass clarinet by improving its keywork and acoustics and extending its lower range.

Prior to this time, lobster was considered a mark of poverty or as a food for indentured servants or lower members of society in Maine, Massachusetts and the Canadian Maritimes, and servants specified in employment agreements that they would not eat lobster more than twice per week.

Prior to the adoption of the California Job Case, the capital letters were stored in a separate drawer or case that was located above the case that held the other letters ; this is why capital letters are called " upper case " characters while the non-capitals are " lower case ".

Prior to the introduction of fibreglass as a construction material, dories were more popular because their ease of assembly and, thereby, lower cost.

Prior to Chandragupta's consolidation of power, small regional kingdoms dominated the northwestern subcontinent, while the Nanda Dynasty dominated the middle and lower basin of the Ganges.

Prior to human occupation, a few, lower forms of life existed on Terminus.

Prior to milking a cow, a large wide leather strap called a surcingle was put around the cow, across the cow's lower back.

Prior to 1958, flooding was a persistent problem near the lower reaches of the river, with Beighton, Catcliffe, Treeton and Woodhouse Mill particularly at risk.

Prior to the case, lower federal courts had split over whether plaintiffs whose rights were violated were automatically entitled to the statutory minimum damages award of $ 1000, or whether those plaintiffs had to prove that they had suffered at least some actual damage from the privacy breach ( which would then be raised to $ 1000 if their actual damages were less than that ).

Prior to the Constitution of 1868, the lower house of the North Carolina Legislature was known as the North Carolina House of Commons.

Prior to Norman occupation of lower Gwynedd, the Perfeddwlad, Rhuddlan was the site of a Welsh cantref and served as the seat of government for the Welsh king Gruffydd ap Llywelyn ( 1007 – August 5, 1063 ), whose family may have been the traditional Welsh lords of Rhuddlan for generations.

Prior to trial, during the discovery phase of the litigation, Tylo's lawyers won a partial victory in an interlocutory appeal challenging a lower court's order compelling her to answer a broad range of personal questions.

Prior to the Holocene era sea levels were considerably lower, such that the water width separating the mainland was much less.

Prior to the 1987 – 88 season Vanbiesbrouck was hit by a puck under his mask in practice, which caused a non-displaced fracture of his lower jaw and a broken tooth.

Prior to the introduction of the euro in 2002, national banks produced several of the lower denominations to build up stockpiles.

Prior to the erection of a peace wall in 1970s, Percy Street ran from the lower Shankill area to the Falls Road.

Prior to this, the power to review lower court rulings was vested in the General Assembly, which determined appeals by examining trial court records.

Prior to the coming of the Ffestiniog Railway, the road was on the top of the embankment, but in 1836 the present carriageway was constructed on the landward side at the lower level.

Prior to 1916, the region was almost invariably called the High Plains, in contrast to the lower Prairie Plains of the Midwestern states.

Prior to 1980, the top level of the Maltese Football League was known as the First Division ; however, it was renamed the Premier League and has stayed so since, with the First Division ( formerly known as the Second Division ) one level lower.

Prior to 1 March 2012, C31's signal was available in analog UHF at a lower power than Melbourne's other television stations ( it was, for example, one quarter of SBS's output power ).

Prior to closing on Ruff's purchase, Congressman Reilly had crucial discharge pipes removed and sold for their value as scrap steel, so there was no practical way to lower the level of water behind the dam should repairs be indicated.

Prior to the construction of the dam and the flooding of the river, the lower Stanislaus was one of the most rafted whitewater runs in the United States.

Prior to the December 2001 merger of SCI Systems and Sanmina, Dish Network receivers were produced at factories in Huntsville, Alabama and Fountain, Colorado.

Prior to the Belen Cutoff, train traffic came through the steep Raton Pass on the Colorado and New Mexico border.

Prior to the construction of the railroad in 1883, Moab was a strategic place to cross the Colorado River.

Prior to moving to DSG Park in 2007, Colorado Rapids shared Mile High Stadium and then Invesco Field at Mile High with the Denver Broncos American football franchise.

Prior to her election as Colorado Attorney General, Norton served in Washington, D. C. as Associate Solicitor of the United States Department of the Interior, overseeing endangered species and public lands legal issues for the National Park Service and the Fish and Wildlife Service.

Prior to joining the faculty at UC Santa Cruz, she taught in Colorado ( University of Colorado ) and Wisconsin ( University of Wisconsin ).

Prior to the construction of a new alignment in 1971, the portion east of the Golden State Freeway was known as the Colorado Freeway in reference to nearby Colorado Boulevard, a historic thoroughfare in Pasadena and northeastern Los Angeles.

Prior to opening his patent medicine business, Warner had chanced to meet Dr. Lewis Swift, an astronomer, who was ready to leave Rochester for Colorado when Warner convinced him to stay and operate his new observatory.

Prior to his election to the U. S. Senate, he served as Attorney General of Colorado from 1999 to 2005.

Prior to his resumption of the presidency of Ohio State on October 1, 2007, Gee was chancellor of Vanderbilt University from 2000 to 2007 and president of Brown University from 1998 to 2000, of the University of Colorado from 1985 to 1990, and of West Virginia University from 1981 to 1985.

Prior appropriation water rights, sometimes known as the Colorado Doctrine in reference to the U. S. Supreme Court case Wyoming v. Colorado, is a system of allocating water rights from a water source that is markedly different from riparian water rights.

Prior to Webb's tenure as mayor, he served as Denver City Auditor from 1987 to 1991, and as Executive Director of the Colorado Department of Regulatory Agenices in the Cabinet of Governor Richard Lamm from 1981 to 1987.

Prior to the season, Colorado was assigned to the Pacific Division of the Western Conference.

Prior to becoming a naval aviator, McDonald was assigned to the battleship USS Mississippi ( BB-41 ) and the battleship USS Colorado ( BB-45 ).

Prior to 1985, the " league " was comprised on 5 team from Colorado Springs, Denver, Boulder and Fort Collins.

Prior to the construction of major dams along its route, the Colorado River fed one of the largest desert estuaries in the world.

Prior the start of the season, the Colorado Rockies moved to East Rutherford, New Jersey where they were renamed New Jersey Devils.

Prior to joining TSMC, Dr. Tsai moved through the ranks during his 8 years at Hewlett-Packard in Fort Collins, Colorado, including R & D project manager, manufacturing engineering project manager, and as a member of the technical staff.

Prior to the Dust Bowl era, agriculture in this section of the state had relied upon sources such as Boulder Creek, St. Vrain Creek, Little Thompson River, Big Thompson River and the Cache La Poudre River, all of which are a part of the South Platte River basin and flow into the South Platte River before the South Platte reaches Greeley, Colorado.

Prior to UCLA, Neuheisel was the head coach at Colorado from 1995 to 1998 and Washington from 1999 to 2002.

Prior to the arrival of Mexican settlers, the Utes occupied significant portions of what are today eastern Utah, western Colorado, including the San Luis Valley, and parts of New Mexico and Wyoming.