Word: precursors
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...bloody Balkan wars of the early 1990s - a move that some low-cost airlines had already anticipated by adding Belgrade and other airports to their routes. It also follows the E.U.'s decision earlier this month to unfreeze an interim trade and cooperation pact with Serbia - seen as a precursor to eventual E.U. membership...
There’s the guy who sent a collage of photos, newspaper clippings, and paragraphs of text extolling the virtues of “Froggy the Gremlin,” who, as far as I can tell, was a precursor to Kermit the Frog for TV shows in the 1940s. Apparently, “in a puff of smoke, Froggy appeared, laughing, hopping from side to side, that fixed and evil grin on his face.” I encourage you to Google around to find out more...
...Don’t worry about it, it’s nothing.’ This “nothing” was a precursor to debilitating tendonosis that would cripple me for much of my junior year, but no big deal right...
...institutes to compare the efficacy of various procedures. Proponents say the studies are essential to ending medical treatments that juice up fees without adding much benefit. But it is far from clear whether Congress would allow such studies to affect health care costs. Opponents say they are a precursor to medical rationing. Indeed, both the House and Senate bills explicitly prevent this research from being used to decide which services Medicare would pay for and how much it would reimburse...
Flores, who hopes to graduate this year with a secondary field in Ethnic Studies, said she hopes the news is a precursor to further recognition for the field...