Prior to 1989, use of a copyright notice — consisting of the copyright symbol (, the letter C inside a circle ), the abbreviation " Copr.

Prior to the 1995 season, the Rockies acquired free-agent outfielder Larry Walker, previously of the Montreal Expos, who replaced Kingery as the 4th member of the " Blake Street Bombers "— named after the street on which the new ballpark ( Coors Field ) was located — along with Galarraga, Bichette, and third baseman Vinny Castilla, who had played sparingly with the major-league club during the previous season.

Prior to that his mother tutored him and he had learned, virtually by heart, a book called the Child's Guide to Knowledge, a popular book of the day — even as an adult he would quote from it.

Prior to the introduction of PostScript, printers were designed to print character output given the text — typically in ASCII — as input.

Prior to the 19th century, suburb often referred to the outlying areas of cities where work was most inaccessible — implicitly, where the poorest people had to live.

Prior to 1971, one of the chief features of the Bretton Woods system was an obligation for each country to adopt a monetary policy that maintained the exchange rate of its currency within a fixed value — plus or minus one percent — in terms of gold.

Prior to signing the accords, Arafat — as Chairman of the PLO and its official representative — signed two letters renouncing violence and officially recognizing Israel.

Prior to this discovery, this origin had been suspected from the similarity of the grapes ' names and the fact that Cabernet Sauvignon shares similar aromas with both grapes — such as the black currant and pencil box aromas of Cabernet franc and the grassiness of Sauvignon blanc.

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.

Prior to widespread vaccination, mortality rates in individuals with smallpox were high — up to 35 % in some cases.

During the Grunwick dispute — where workers struck over pay, working conditions and the owner George Ward's refusal to recognise their trade union — there was a split in the Conservative Shadow Cabinet between the conciliatory approach of Jim Prior, the Shadow Employment Secretary, and Keith Joseph.

Prior to the late 1930s, Sevier County's population, economy, and society — which relied primarily on subsistence agriculture — held little significance vis-à-vis any other county in the rural South.

Prior to the mid-20th century, Monroe County remained largely agrarian and was well known for its numerous paper mills — the first of which was founded in 1834.

Prior to that, Caldwell County had been part of Christian, Logan, and Lincoln Counties — Lincoln County having been one of the three original counties of Kentucky.

Prior to the arrival of European settlers in North America, Native American settlements appear to have been limited to the area north of the Indian River, north of what is now Bethany Beach ; even after Europeans pushed the Native Americans — mostly Nanticokes -- out of their coastal settlements in the mid-17th century, the Native Americans moved west to settle around Oak Orchard, Delaware, and in the Millsboro, Delaware, area rather than south toward what would become Bethany Beach.

Horses baling straw circa 1900. The Dakota nation ceded land in 1851 and many relocated to Chief Shakopee's village — the current Shakopee-Mdewakanton Indian Reservation in nearby Prior Lake.

), STL ( Fribourg ), LSS ( Biblical Commission ) ( Master of St Benet ’ s Hall 1990 — 2004 ; Titular Cathedral Prior of Norwich 2004 — 9 ; Titular Cathedral Prior of Durham )

Prior to 1931, eleven times the Preakness was run before the Derby.

Prior to the 1980s, heroin was typically transported from Burma to Thailand, before being trafficked by sea to Hong Kong, which was and still remains the major transit point at which heroin enters the international market.

Prior to the discovery of the Rosetta Stone and its eventual decipherment, there had been no understanding of the Ancient Egyptian language and script since shortly before the fall of the Roman Empire.

Prior to Return to Flight, NASA Administrator Sean O ' Keefe declared that all future flights of the shuttle would go to the ISS, precluding the possibility of executing the final Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission which had been scheduled before the Columbia accident, despite the fact that millions of dollars worth of upgrade equipment for Hubble were ready and waiting in NASA warehouses.

Prior to the Phanerozoic ( before 544 Ma ), it is believed that microbial or inorganic processes weakly regulated the ocean's silicon cycle .< ref name = grenne03 > Subsequently, the cycle appears dominated ( and more strongly regulated ) by the radiolarians and siliceous sponges, the former as zooplankton, the latter as sedentary filter feeders primarily on the continental shelves.

Prior to 1932, the Preakness was run before the Derby eleven times.

Prior to 1931, eleven times the Preakness was run before the Derby.

He took a year to consider what action to take, before writing to the Prior of Bath in October 1500 to explain that a large amount of the priory income would be dedicated to rebuilding the cathedral.

Prior to this, between 1947 and 1998, it was the capital of the Bydgoszcz Voivodeship, and before that, of the Pomeranian Voivodeship between 1945 and 1947.

Prior to public service, McNamara was one of the " Whiz Kids " who helped rebuild Ford Motor Company after World War II, and briefly served as Ford's President before becoming Secretary of Defense.

Prior to the redevelopment of the Melbourne Cricket Ground between 2002 and 2006, spectators seated in the Members ' Stand ( reserved for members of the Melbourne Cricket Club ) would not participate in a Mexican wave, and would be booed by other spectators at the ground, before the wave would resume on the other side of the stand.

Prior to Ipsus, he had never before lost a battle.

Prior to 1229, Heston was part of the parish of Gistleworth ( Isleworth ) before being taken by Henry III, who subsequently granted it to the Earl of Cornwall.

Prior to Marcellus, the spolia opima was not of special importance in the minds of Romans because it had happened only twice before, if at all.

Prior to that time, the territory now included in Badger Township was within the watershed of the Red River Valley and hence technically a part of Rupert's Land and Assiniboia before becoming part of British Canada as a result of the boundary settlement in the Treaty of 1818, a which fixed the international border at the 49th parallel north from the Northwest Angle of Lake of the Woods westward to the Rocky Mountains.

Prior to 1929, high school students attended Central High School in Paterson, before the Board of Education voted to send students to Ramsey High School in Ramsey instead.

Prior to MRP, and before computers dominated industry, reorder-point / reorder-quantity ( ROP / ROQ ) type methods like EOQ ( Economic Order Quantity ) had been used in manufacturing and inventory management.

Prior to the 1820s, Norwich was served by vessels using the River Yare, which flows through Breydon Water before joining the River Bure and then the North Sea near Great Yarmouth.

Prior to the end of the last ice age the Purbeck Hills were continuous with the Isle of Wight and the Frome would have continued east through what is now Poole Harbour and Poole Bay, into The Solent, collecting the Stour, Beaulieu, Test and Itchen, before flowing into the Channel east of what is now the Isle of Wight.

Prior to 1918, the name was written " Saude " or ( before 1862 ) " Søfde ".

Prior to Keith's signing with Sparrow Records and two years before the release of " No Compromise ", Tommy James ( of Tommy James and the Shondells ) released " Don't Wanna Fall Away From You " on his 1976 Fantasy album titled " In Touch ".

Prior to a discussion of his raids against the Japanese positions in the Marshall Islands, Halsey told the young midshipmen before him, " Missing the Battle of Midway has been the greatest disappointment of my career, but I am going back to the Pacific where I intend personally to have a crack at those yellow bellied sons of bitches and their carriers ," to the rousing applause of the assembled midshipmen.

Prior to Warren Mears ' first appearance, he attended Sunnydale High for a semester at the same time as Willow, Xander, and Buffy, before leaving Sunnydale to attend a tech college over in Dutton.

Prior to this, wine would be sold by the barrel ( and before that, the amphora ) and put into bottles only at the merchant's shop, if at all.