Word: precursor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Still, administrators stress that the curriculum review is more than just a precursor to the capital drive...
Information is usually a precursor to solicitation. The development office has not yet considered asking grandparents for donations, according to Margaret Mansfield, the development officer in charge of soliciting gifts from non-alumni parents. And it should not. Grandparents of current students should not be solicited...
...Corey synthesized leukotreine A before it was found to be the precursor of the leukotrine family, a discovery which made previously inaccessible substances available for biological research...
...provided legal advice and drafted legislation. In testifying before the legislature on constitutional issues, Kennedy came to the attention of California Governor Ronald Reagan and his executive assistant Ed Meese. In 1973 they asked him to write a tax-limitation referendum, Proposition 1, which was a complicated and unsuccessful precursor of the controversial Proposition...
DIED. James Jesus Angleton, 69, relentless, enigmatic director of counterintelligence at the Central Intelligence Agency from 1954 to 1974; of lung cancer; in Washington. Angleton was an early member of the Office of Strategic Services, the World War II precursor to the CIA. His trust-nobody style while working in what he called espionage's "wilderness of mirrors," and his pursuit of Soviet agents in the U.S. and moles within the CIA, won him respect from insiders but little public notice. He has been credited with helping to expose Kim Philby, the British journalist who worked for the Soviet Union...