He padded those gains by buying gold in early 2009, well before it began to rally.
And the US had foreknowledge of the attack in the weeks and months before it began.
But the 1964 Games in Innsbruck were overshadowed by the deaths of two competitors before it began.
Interest in the conference was high enough that on the Monday before it began, registration was cut off.
Blair did not speak during the ceremony, but chatted with veterans before it began, The Associated Press reports.
It was a competition that I got so excited I started tearing up before it began, which never happened before.
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Ongoing disagreements between the chief constable and police authority have threatened to derail the new force even before it began.
Tarek Shahin, author of the graphic novel "Rise: the Story of the Egyptian Revolution as Told Shortly Before It Began, " agrees.
Emergency managers along the Mississippi, Missouri and Red River basins used NOAA climate data to help lessen flooding, months before it began.
Nothing like this went into other controversial but important issues such as genetically engineered crops, shale gas or nuclear power before it began.
Louisville guard Peyton Siva summed up the team's expectations in the NCAA tournament right before it began: "No sleep till Atlanta, " he said.
Politically, however, the scandal is in Washington, not Libya, and its time frame begins after the attack ended, not before it began.
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The government-controlled media also made its first mention of the trial -- after carrying no reports about it before it began, or on its first day.
He sat out the Champions Trophy in India but declared himself ready for the Ashes series in Australia, only to pull out days before it began.
Out of that came giants like Nokia which sold a half a billion phones a year before it began to fold under competitive pressure from Apple and Android.
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The whole thing would be over before it began if Bush didn't get re-elected Governor of Texas, a state with a history of tossing Governors overboard after one term.
Some hardliners in Bahrain's ruling establishment have indeed been hoping the Americans or Israelis would attack Iran before it began loading fuel last month into its reactor at Bushehr.
Monday's action was very nearly over almost before it began as two golf balls moved on the green due to strong gusts but the wind subsided and play continued the rest of the day.
It was during her tenure that Napolitano came face-to-face with what came to be known as the Chandler roundup, the kind of moral crisis that could have ended a promising political career before it began.
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It will be particularly encouraging to Sir Menzies Campbell whose leadership honeymoon ended almost before it began, with poor Commons performances and doubts raised about his age and ability to meet the challenges of the leadership.
Because, before it began, in a foiled attempt to escape a maximum security prison, he sharpened a plastic comb into a weapon and drove it through the eye and into the brain of Louis Pepe, a 42-year-old Bureau of Prisons guard.
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But first we had to walk through the camp, and this was I knew it before it began and it fulfilled every expectation, every fear and dream I had concocted over three months of planning the most extraordinary walk I have ever undertaken.
Others have pointed out the mistakes the Germans made regarding Barbarossa and their supplies and equipment, but had the operation kicked off on schedule (about a month and a half before it actually began), the Wehrmacht would have had a good chance of being in Moscow before the worst of the winter hit.
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There, Richard Peto, an Oxford University statistician, quieted the cancer scare before it really began.
One thing is certain though, before it even began, Calderon's honeymoon period is already over.
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) South Korean President Park Geun-hye's honeymoon was over before it even began.
That proved the wrong decision as the lethargic Scots stumbled into World Cup qualifying and ended a campaign before it really began.
Roberts pointed to the Cash For Clunkers program, which he said had a solid spurt before it finally began to fade out.
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