Word: precursor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hope is that Madeleine's bouquet of "countryside, woods, flowers and fruit," as Metro officials described it, will be more agreeable to commuters than the customary combination of industrial fumes and assorted human waste. That distinction apparently did not apply to Madeleine's precursor, Francine, an ill-fated odor that generated more complaints than praise when it was floated in the early 1990s. Five years in the making, Madeleine was designed to be "sweet rather than violent," a scent "that lingered for two weeks and that suggested a feeling of cleanliness and well-being rather than of filthiness being covered...
Fortunately for Harvard, the ACCs are only a precursor to the series of spring regattas, which will commence right after the waters thaw. The women's team will have the entire winter to refocus, and can process its fall regattas in preparation for the spring races...
...congressional fact-finding mission. Tomorrow, Newt Gingrich has his own summer of deliverance as he starts a float trip down the Hanford Reach, the last non-tidal free-flowing stretch of the Columbia River in the U.S., as a precursor to Hill debate on whether to keep it that...
...High Art shares In the Company of Men's tendencies toward pretension and detachment, it also recalls its Sundance precursor for its literate dialogue, nuanced portrayals and admirable breadth of vision. Cholodenko would have done well to decide early on if her film was about three women artists or about Art as embodied in three women; her title implies a closer sympathy with the broader, less intimate project. all the same, Sheedy and Cholodenko especially more than prove their mettle, giving us hope that their talents and potential will come to fuller flower than the story suggests is possible. Like...
Carret took risks outside the stock markets: he joined the Army Signal Corps, a precursor to the Air Force, after graduation from the College and was trained to fly the Sopwith Camel, a vintage airplane...