The unconventional tragedy of a talented woman who faded into madness before her testimony became available for late-20th-century interpretation.

While this term had some currency before his 1998 testimony, this was its first prominent public exposure.

Giancana remains the only Senate witness to have been riddled with bullets before his scheduled testimony.

Just six months before his 2001 testimony, Greenspan saw no problem with large projected budget surpluses.

Long before her anguished testimony, however, the case had taken a political toll on Senator Kennedy.

He insisted, for example, that Colonel North would not submit to private questioning by staff lawyers before his public testimony.

Mr. Donaldson declined to discuss the problems in regulating the industry before his testimony.

Despite these setbacks, there are, however, cases of contamination have been documented both before and after her testimony.

The warning came a day before Mr. Baker's scheduled testimony.

I hoped the nap would refresh him before his testimony.