Word: augur
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This year they have a different gripe: labor disputes are plaguing the nation's overburdened crop distribution system at a time when bin-busting harvests and a high export demand augur a booming farm economy. Since late August the United Transportation Union and the Brotherhood of Railway and Airline Clerks have halted operations on the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad, which serves 1,680 grain elevators in the Midwest. And for almost three months a strike by the American Federation of Grain Millers has closed the 13 huge grain elevators in the port of Duluth-Superior, stopping...
...that he had no intention of lifting the martial law imposed in 1972. This decision, though not unexpected, came as a blow to both opposition leaders and Western diplomats, who have been privately urging the President to restore democratic rule before it is too late. It also did not augur well for observances of the seventh anniversary of martial law in many areas of the Philippines this week...
...think that it's too difficult to augur Harvard's fate tomorrow. Outcome-wise, things just cannot get any worse for the Crimson, which has been strangely stripped of victories against Princeton and Brown over the past two weeks...
Demographics augur well for Nuestro 's staying power. Some 86% of all U.S. Latinos over 14 are literate in English. Aggregate income of the 12 million...
...women's clothing for their 1901 revelries, they don't seem so bad. Their charm, cleverness and sense of fun made their elitism tolerable, even nice. No like qualities abound here. All that's left is a brittle, petrified reminder of things past and a joyless, smiling augur of things to come...