Word: augur
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although the loss is irrelevant as far as Princeton's Ivy standing is concerned, it does not augur well for the remainder of the Tigers' schedule, which includes heavies like Harvard, Yale and Dartmouth...
...LaZebnik envisions purgatory as a vast, bug-infested wasteland, where decision-making has degenerated into the acceptance of "viable alternatives, second choices, trial balloons." Built upon repetition--for where there are no choices, there is no real escape from the past--it is a vision which, hopefully, does not augur a similar fate for LaZebnik: being condemned to write the same show over and over again...
Granted, all these are difficult tasks, which some would claim lie outside the realm of journalism. We don't expect certainty from sociologists looking backwards, much less journalists trying to augur the future. Notwithstanding, the Editors pretend to even more exaggerated heights of hortatory hyperbole, theorizing about "journalistic counterpoint," and dreaming of historians of the twenty-first century leafing through yellowing newsprint searching for these poignant vignettes that will crystallize the sixties and seventies...
That alone would seem to augur trouble for the leftist factions within the Peking leadership that have been trying to turn the anti-Confucius ideological campaign into a broad attack on party moderates. The enhanced authority of the regular party apparatus appears to have tipped the power balance in favor of the moderates. Prominent leftists like Chiang Ching, Chairman Mao Tse-tung's wife, and Politburo Member Yao Wenyuan have faded from public view. At the same time, the moderate party leadership that emerged after the Tenth Party Congress a year ago has endured intact. Chou Enlai, whose relative...
...This atmosphere of opportunistic expediency does not augur well for the medical profession," says Frederick Hofmann, head of admissions at Columbia's medical school. He is right. Cutthroat medical students could well make cutthroat physicians...