Prior to the formation of the OSS ( the American version of the British Secret Intelligence Service and Special Operations Executive ), American intelligence had been conducted on an ad-hoc basis by the various departments of the executive branch, including the State, Treasury, Navy, and War Departments.

Prior to being designated as a Special Area of Conservation ( SAC ), all sites are assessed under a process set out by the Joint Nature Conservation Committee as follows:

Prior to that time the standard. 38 Special was very close to today's "+ P " cartridges.

Prior to 1973, the army ’ s Fernspäher ( Long-Distance Reconnaissance ), the navy ’ s Kampfschwimmer ( Combat Swimmers /" Frogmen "), and ( until 1989 ) the Nuclear Weapons Protection Platoons-Sonderwaffenbegleitkompanien were the only military units comparable to anything that other nations may have seen as dedicated Special Forces units.

Prior to his last assignment, Schoomaker spent over 30 years in a variety of assignments with both conventional and special operations forces – he is the first Special Forces-trained Army Chief of Staff and the second to serve on the Joint Chiefs of Staff ( General Henry H. Shelton was the first, when he served as Chairman ).

Prior to that, he served as The Special Assistant to the Secretary of Defense and Deputy Secretary of Defense from January 2001 to July 2001.

Prior to the establishment of the Poor Law Union, almost every aspect of local governance had been shared between three authorities ; the Justices of the Peace for the West Riding in their Quarter or Special sessions ; the Parish of Royston ( until 1843 ) and its Vestry, and the Manor of Cudworth with its Court Baron and Court Leet.

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Prior to the battle, the U. S Special Forces had assumed control of Dong Xoai ’ s defences ; they stepped up guard and patrol activities, and ordered the construction of new defensive fortifications around the district headquarters, the Special Forces Camp, and the armoured and artillery positions on the eastern side of the district.

Prior to 1959, that position had been held by the full-size Buick Special model ; in 1959 the LeSabre replaced the Special, a nameplate that was reintroduced in 1961 for Buick's line of compact cars.

Prior to the album's release, the song Something Special would be chosen to become the closing title music for the 1987 MGM production Overboard starring Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell, and the piano bridge from the song " Dixie Flyer " would subsequently often be utilized as break or filler music on public radio and public television.

He was previously the Assistant Secretary at the Labor and Workforce Development Agency ( An Agency that he helped create ), deputy director for the Department of Industrial Relations and Prior to his State service Special Advisor and Congressional Liaison to President Bill Clinton.

Prior to serving as councilman, LaBonge was Director of Community Relations at the Department of Water and Power, Special Assistant to Mayor Richard Riordan, and Chief Deputy to Council President John Ferraro.

Prior to taking over as Acting Special Counsel, he had responsibility for managing the activities of the agency ’ s regional field offices, as well as responsibility for OSC ’ s Alternative Dispute Resolution Program.

Prior to her appointment as Special Counsel by President William Jefferson Clinton, Ms. Kaplan served as Deputy General Counsel of the National Treasury Employees Union ( NTEU ), where she represented the interests of 150, 000 employees in the areas of civil liberties, administrative law, racial and sexual discrimination, and labor law.

Prior to 1981, O ' Connor had served as Special Counsel for Interagency Coordination and Staff Director of the Executive Group Staff.

Prior to joining the Defense Department, Dr. Luti served as a Special Advisor for National Security Affairs to Vice President Cheney.

Prior to becoming a coach at CCU, Olivo resided in Omaha, NE where he was the Runningbacks coach and a Special Teams asst.

Prior to his appointment to DHS, Allen served as Special Assistant to the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.

Prior to the release of You Can Be Special Too, Marine Parade suffered financial difficulties as a result of one of its distributors going into liquidation.

Prior to Criminal Intent's premiere, Laura Fries of Variety commented on the difference between this series and Law & Order and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: " By scrutinizing motive and intent, Criminal Intent utilizes a more personal style that sets it apart from its brethren.

Prior to the release of Windows Media Player in Windows 98 Second Edition, separate programs, CD Player, Deluxe CD Player, DVD Player and Media Player, were included in old versions of Microsoft Windows for playback of media files.

Prior to the release of the 2008 Elise SC, the limited production California Edition arrived at dealerships.

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Prior to JDeveloper 11g, JDeveloper came in three editions: Java Edition, J2EE Edition, and Studio Edition.

Prior to the release of the VHS Volumes, a laserdisc titled Beavis and Butt-Head: The Essential Collection was issued in 1994, containing sixteen episodes from the second and third seasons.

Prior to New World Pictures ' release of the film, Toho had the film dubbed in Hong Kong.

Prior to this, in his early twenties, he traveled to negotiate with Emperor Nero for the release of several Jewish priests.

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

Prior to the release of these maps, players were limited to playing multiplayer games on the single-player levels, which, while functional as multiplayer levels, were not designed with deathmatch gameplay specifically in mind.

Prior to the release of the TV series, the name Robotech was used by model kit manufacturer Revell on their Robotech Defenders line in the mid-1980s.

Prior to the album's release, the track " This Is It " was available for download on the iTunes Store, as well as for Rock Band.

Prior to the release of The Wind Waker, a bonus disc called The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Master Quest was released, containing a port of Ocarina of Time and a GameCube-modified version of Ocarina of Time Ura.

Prior to the release of HP-UX version 11. 11, HP used a decimal version numbering scheme with the first number giving the major release and the number following the decimal showing the minor release.

Prior to its release, a competition was run by Queen online to guess the track listing as a promotion for the album.

Prior to the release of 1998's Follow the Leader, Gretchen Plewes, a Zeeland high school assistant principal, said in an interview for a Michigan newspaper that Korn's music is " indecent, vulgar, obscene and intends to be insulting " after giving a student, Eric VanHoven, a one-day suspension for wearing a shirt with the Korn logo on it.

Prior to the release of Dr. No – and unconnected with the book itself – Bernard Bergonzi, in the March 1958 issue of Twentieth Century attacked Fleming's work, saying that it contained " a strongly marked streak of voyeurism and sado-masochism " and that the books showed " the total lack of any ethical frame of reference ".

Prior to the release of this tape, President Nixon had denied political motivations in his instructions to the CIA, and claimed he had no knowledge prior to March 21, 1973 of any involvement by senior campaign officials such as John Mitchell.

Prior to the film's release, executive producer and Apple Computer founder Steve Jobs stated " If Toy Story is a modest hit — say $ 75 million at the box office — we'll and Disney both break even.

Tausen's preaching converted ordinary people, merchants, nobles, and monks and even the Prior grew to appreciate Tausen and ordered his release.

Prior to the release of the first film, she was noted for her Seven Gothic Tales, for which she is also known in Denmark.

Prior to the release of Windows Mobile 2003, third-party software was developed using Microsoft's eMbedded Visual Tools, eMbedded Visual Basic ( eVB ) and eMbedded Visual C ( eVC ).

Prior to release of the film, the Los Angeles Daily News reported that Bellaman " heads west to help Erich Wolfgang Korngold on the scoring " of the film, and that Bellaman used to be on the faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia.

Prior to its release, the film had been hailed by critic Amy Harmon as an epochal moment when cyberpunk counterculture would enter the mainstream.

Prior to its North American release, game play footage from Super Mario Bros. 3 appeared in the Universal Studios film The Wizard, which helped fuel its fans ' anticipation.

Prior to the game's release, a promotional soundtrack was released in North America, titled Music to Pound the Ground To: Yoshi's Story Game Soundtrack.