prewar levels of industrial production. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : prewar prices. From Dictionary.com.
Well, to be fair, Joe Kennedy was up to his neck in prewar Nazi dealings …. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » On Today Show, O’Reilly Compares Murtha With Hitler Sympathizers] Reference
It had 237,000 housing units and this figure is easy to remember. 237,000 housing units in prewar Cologne. From Wordnik.com. [U.N.R.R.A. Reports on Europe] Reference
Their basal metabolic rate according to studies made by their own scientists were about 12% lower than in prewar years. From Wordnik.com. [The Condition of Civilians in Western Europe at the Conclusion of the German Occupation] Reference
Surviving evidence suggests that the same pressure shaped memory practices in prewar Magude among women across an even broader age range. From Wordnik.com. [Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique] Reference
A presidential commission is calling prewar assessments of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, quote, "dead wrong.". From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 31, 2005] Reference
Postwar Vienna was fixated on "prewar," when everything had been better. From Wordnik.com. [The Education of Peter Drucker] Reference
Debates over prescription-drug benefits and Social Security looked like "prewar" irrelevancies. From Wordnik.com. [A Dynasty's Dilemma] Reference
His mission was to recreate a mythical, prewar Paris. From Wordnik.com. [Avedon] Reference
The prewar city of James Joyce is, of course, long gone. From Wordnik.com. [Ireland's New Face] Reference
In particular, prewar Koreans were heartened by the news. From Wordnik.com. [The Pyongyang Card] Reference
Most Cambodian pop tunes are love songs that mimic those of the prewar 1960s. From Wordnik.com. [Hip-Hop About Pol Pot] Reference
Though he has managed some successes, the Iraqis are still far from prewar levels. From Wordnik.com. [Hitting Him Where It Hurts] Reference
Blair - Report shows his prewar intel said terrorism would get worse after invasion. From Wordnik.com. [Conventional Wisdom] Reference
In prewar Berlin, when Salomon (Sally) Sorowitsch needed money, he printed it himself. From Wordnik.com. [A Solomonic Choice] Reference
Their well-intentioned quest to restore the prewar gold standard led to the Depression. From Wordnik.com. [‘Booking’ the Economy] Reference
It's 10 percent of the prewar population; that's somewhere between 100,000 and 200,000 people. From Wordnik.com. [Preparing For The Refugees] Reference
But hundreds of billions of American tax dollars later, Iraq's oil still isn't flowing at prewar levels. From Wordnik.com. [Baghdad's Big Oil Bust] Reference
Hizbullah is back to its prewar strength and maybe even beyond it because it has not been made to disarm. From Wordnik.com. [Who’s the Pariah Now?] Reference
We also invited our pets inside to shed on them -- a practice that prewar Americans would have found strange. From Wordnik.com. [Why Ebonie Can't Breathe] Reference
We've washed out the prewar spike in oil prices, which drove 1990's inflation rate to a worrisome 6.1 percent. From Wordnik.com. [A Recovery As Early As Spring?] Reference
The prewar Yugoslav economy was relatively integrated, yet it was destroyed by ethnic and religious antagonism. From Wordnik.com. [Give Profit A Chance] Reference
When Dems unexpectedly called for a secret Senate session on prewar intel, it looked like another pathetic gimmick. From Wordnik.com. [Conventional Wisdom] Reference
King Abdullah II of Jordan, which borders Iraq, is cooperating with U.S. prewar activities around -- and in -- Iraq. From Wordnik.com. [After Powell, Before War] Reference
Scandals in the prewar Iraq Oil-for-Food Program are raising broader questions about how the United Nations does business. From Wordnik.com. [ALL IN THE FAMILY? U.N. PRACTICES UNDER SCRUTINY.] Reference
It reports that more than 80 percent of Apaches in the region are "mission capable" at any time - surpassing prewar ratings. From Wordnik.com. [The Apache's Battle Test] Reference
"Our great imperial Japan is blessed with an imperial family that is unlike any other," reads a guidebook from the prewar period. From Wordnik.com. [The Ties That Bind] Reference
Indeed, his biggest problem is not relations with Washington but within the European Union, badly divided during the prewar hostilities. From Wordnik.com. [Chirac's Great Game] Reference
The 400-mile run between the two cities, once about four hours, now stretches to 6.5 hours, as long as in the prewar glory days of steam. From Wordnik.com. [Traveling On The Cheap] Reference
The Republicans have a cassette full of your doleful prewar words about Desert Storm, ready for media man Roger Ailes to pin to your hide. From Wordnik.com. [Dream On, Democrats] Reference
National Archive, and oral histories compiled from witnesses and survivors on Cheju, paint an unsavory picture of the prewar Seoul regime. From Wordnik.com. [Ghosts Of Cheju] Reference
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