Prior to the South African tour, he was diagnosed with a brain tumor, and a planned tour of Germany in the fall of 1980 was canceled.

Prior to the release of NeXTSTEP, Chrysler planned to buy 3, 000 copies in 1992.

Route S44A ( planned in 1938 ) Prior to 1953, several spurs of Route 44 existed or were planned.

Prior to US occupation, Iraq had a centrally planned economy.

Prior to the planned opening in 2005, THSRC blamed TSC for construction delays, identifying that as the reason for the postponement of the opening.

Prior to the invasion, an air campaign was planned to isolate the battlefield and cut the Germans off from reinforcement by destroying several key bridges.

Prior to World War I, along with General Stepa Stepanović, he planned movements of the Serbian army, which eventually won a victory at the mountain of Cer.

Prior to his departure Castrén indicated he planned to return to Helsinki in six months and continue his work as leader of the metro committee.

Prior to mission cancellation, cost overruns and technical problems caused the Lander design to be rescoped, and the planned large Athena rover was replaced by a small rover duplicating the Sojourner which was a part of the Mars Pathfinder mission.

Prior to Hull's death, Lee and Herring had planned to revive their " false Rod Hull " character for their contemporary series, This Morning with Richard Not Judy, but although they filmed several sketches – in which the character would die after performing a pointless stunt – the footage was never used ..

Prior to the emergence of military rule in the early 1980s, Ikeja was a well planned, clean and quiet residential environment with shopping malls, pharmacies and government reservation areas.

Prior to writing the script to Alien, O ' Bannon had been working in France for Chilean cult director Alejandro Jodorowsky's planned adaptation of Frank Herbert's classic science-fiction novel Dune.

Prior to this, Atlanta had not been a planned expansion location for House of Blues.

Prior to this calling to a full time church position, McKay had planned on a career in education and educational administration.

Prior to these events, McKusick had seriously planned to go into the ministry.

Prior to Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs ( 1937 ), Disney planned on making Alice in Wonderland his first feature-length film instead.

Prior to the July 30, 2012 live episode of Raw at the arena, an incident involving the pyrotechnic system caused fans to evacuate the arena briefly, but the show later commenced as planned.

Prior to that, Freeman had planned to do " establishing " location shots in Hawaii but principal production in southern California.

Prior to the 1970s, a group of American businessmen, arms traffickers, supporters of free enterprise, a black agent of the information services, and a Member of Parliament of the British House of Lords planned the independence of Abaco, or that would have a UK dependency status similar to that of Anguilla.

Prior to and during Israel's 1982 invasion of Lebanon, al-Wazir planned numerous attacks inside Israel against both civilian and military targets.

Prior to grouping, with the development and implementation by competitors ( notably L & SWR, LB & SCR, various " Tube " companies ) and electric trams ) of electric traction in the early twentieth century, SECR planned to start electrifying its lines.

Prior to 2001, postal votes had been available since 1948 only to those unable to attend a polling station for reasons of ill health, employment or planned holiday away from home and to some electors living on small islands where they would need to cross water to reach their polling station.

It was designed by Beverly Prior Architects to be built from prefabricated materials, because of the short time frame between the start of construction and planned opening.

Prior to the Smartmodem, modems were almost entirely manual in operation, having developed from acoustic couplers that used a traditional telephone for dialling and hanging up.

Prior to being the National ERO, NERC's guidelines for power system operation and accreditation were referred to as Policies, for which compliance was strongly encouraged yet ultimately voluntary.

His liver was severely damaged by alcohol-induced cirrhosis, as well as hepatitis C. Prior to the operation, doctors also discovered he had inoperable liver cancer known as an undifferentiated hepatocellular carcinoma, further facilitating the need for a transplant.

Prior to 1992, Fairmont had been home to a major regional frozen food canning operation.

Prior to the building of the Plymouth Railroad, the Philadelphia, Germantown, and Norristown Railroad was built along the Schuylkill River through Plymouth and commenced operation on 1835.

Prior to implementing ISO 14001, an initial review or gap analysis of the organisation ’ s processes and products is recommended, to assist in identifying all elements of the current operation and if possible future operations, that may interact with the environment, termed environmental aspects ( Martin 1998 ).

Prior to the opening of the Perth Airport, civilian air services for the city were provided from airfields located in Maylands ( in operation since 1924 ), as well as on the city's foreshore at Langley Park.

" Prior to selling its certificate business to Symantec in 2010, Verisign had more than 3, 000, 000 certificates in operation for everything from military to financial services and retail applications, making it the largest CA behind the encryption and authentication on the Internet, which most people recognize as the small padlock icon in their Web browser when shopping online or logging into a secure website.

Prior to 1 April 2009, the following DMB-T / H channels were in operation: News & Business, a 24-hour news and finance news channel ; His TV, a 24-hour sports and infotainment channel aimed at men ; Her TV, a 24-hour lifestyle infotainment channel aimed at women ; Plus TV, a 24-hour documentary channel ; and HDTV, a 24-hour high-definition channel.

Prior to the debilitating labor strike in 1998 which caused PAL to temporarily cease operation, Legazpi Airport served as the airline's hub in Bicol, serving Manila, Cebu, Masbate, Virac, even Catarman, Samar.

Prior to that time the company had treated the search for oil as largely a hit or miss operation without scientific exploration.

Prior to the American operation, the Germans installed many in-depth series of trenches, wire obstacles, and machine-gun nests.

Prior to 2008, CityNews and local cable news channel, CP24 were a combined operation sharing the same newsroom and studio space at 299 Queen Street West.

Prior to that, the nearest integration of the two previous systems was the operation of BMT trains over part of the IND Queens Boulevard Line via the BMT 60th Street Tunnel Connection connecting Lexington Avenue / 59th Street on the BMT Broadway Line to Queens Plaza on the IND Queens Boulevard Line in 1955.

Prior to the move to Scranton, they ran as a two-car train while in operation at the Philadelphia Waterfront every Christmas season for many years as the " Santa Train ," with No. 401 operating as Santa's workshop and No. 46 used for the passengers.

Prior to the establishment of the Department of Civil Aviation in January 1986, the airline was responsible for the operation and maintenance of airport infrastructure.

Prior to the 2007 season, the San Diego Surf Dawgs operation was discontinued as San Diego State breached the lease agreement with the league and subsequently paid a settlement.

Prior to the operation, a neurosurgeon will use stereotactic technology to identify the exact part of the brain that needs treatment by putting in place a frame on the patient ’ s head with four pins to keep it still.

Prior to the launch of the operation, a final meeting was held in GHQ.

Prior to the operation of the Level III system, Level I systems were popularly used by most of the households in the municipality.

Prior to leaving Australia, Fellows was tipped off by a friend with a police contact at Manly, that the Commonwealth Police believed he was involved in a large drug importation operation and had him under surveillance.

Prior to serving as mayor, Smith had served as the head of the news operation for the city's Daily Press and Times-Herald newspapers.