Word: hitherto
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...without information. It has no information of its own; it follows, then, that it must rely on others to manufacture the stuff. The Government is the great smithy of information. Appreciating this, Reagan's men opened the doors to the workshop and escorted reporters inside in a way hitherto unknown in Washington. They literally told them everything. For the press, always the outsider, always operating on suspicion and guesswork and animosity, it was a dream come true. It had never before had sources like this. And, of course, the press could not risk losing these sources by offending them...
...anthropomorphic animals give us a brief glimpse of their hitherto secret lives, revealing their sorrows and triumphs, fears and celebrations; all of this is brought together in a well-choreographed flurry of dance and music, with all the lyrics being taken from, or suggested by, the original published and unpublished works of T.S. Eliot...
Such moves have outraged many in a nation in which economic discontent has already spawned a wave of protests. Declares one disgruntled depositor: "I will keep large amounts of cash on hand and will pay all my bills in cash." Others have been lining up to open accounts at hitherto little-used post-office banks, where services are limited but attractively free of charge...
...Reagan's most trusted political advisers, Clark is eager to repair the President's image in an election year. Indeed, he has already sent a number of small fence-mending signals to the environmental community. Reversing a Watt policy, he offered the National Wildlife Federation hitherto-refused federal data on the amount of poisonous lead shot that duck hunters inadvertently scatter into lakes and ponds. With that gesture, he buried the hatchet with the largest conservation group in the U.S. Clark also promised that he would end the moratorium imposed by Watt on acquiring new land...
What makes the views from IRAS so unusual is that they provide the first look at a hitherto invisible world. Before IRAS, telescopes placed aboard spacecraft gathered either conventional "visible" light, in the range of the human eye, or higher-frequency ultraviolet radiation, X rays and gamma rays. IRAS, by contrast, operates at the other end of the electromagnetic spectrum: it "sees" in the dark by detecting the long waves of infrared radiation, or heat. Since water vapor in the earth's atmosphere soaks up most infrared radiation from space, such observations until now could only be made...