A month before Gerasimov's statement, Poland had acquired its first non-communist government since the 1940s.

But before Mr. Bush's statement, diplomats and financial experts here had expressed skepticism about the rumors.

The airlines are following the rules as they have for the last 15 years, before the agency's recent statement on the subject.

This is also why he will be careful, as he was before Dagan's statement, in the way he approaches his nuclear programme.

The company said that it had about 13,000 complaints, including some dated before Mr. Ellis's statement.

All three companies said they had decided not to buy time on the coming-out episode long before Mr. Falwell's statement.

Even before Sunday's statement on advertising, analysts had predicted that sales of the drugs would fall in 2005 because of the questions about their safety.

Before Mr Lamassoure's statement, I made two proposals for changes.

The investigators took Kharey Wise to the crime scene before his videotaped statement, and the prosecutor showed him pictures of the victim.

He was sentenced 22 August 2008, a month before Diane Finley's statement.