"No previous pandemic has been detected so early or watched so closely, in real-time, right at the very beginning."

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

This new study combined a large number of previous studies and concluded that a lack of social interactions ranks right up with smoking,obesity, and alcoholism as a risk factor for death.

VOA: standard.2010.07.29

We believed then that distance had added no enchantment to Stanley Baldwin, a Tory centrist, and Ramsay MacDonald, Britain's last previous too right-wing Scots Labour prime minister.

ECONOMIST: The wealth of nations

Under Jean-Pierre Raffarin, the previous centre-right prime minister, reforms of both public-sector pensions and public health-insurance were pushed through despite demonstrations and strikes.

ECONOMIST: Gloom in France

Mr Lafontaine pledged to roll back the (modest) cuts in social welfare made by the previous centre-right government, make energy dearer, close tax loopholes misused by the rich, and boost domestic demand to create jobs.

ECONOMIST: Germany