Word: augur
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...deep. Many of Britain's estimated 750,000 Pakistanis had embraced Bhutto as a symbol of hope for freedom and stability back home. As Britain's politicians pay tribute to a fallen leader, the country's Pakistanis are trying to come to terms with what her death could augur for their troubled homeland...
...existential crisis. Yet that task seems sapped of any great urgency as life goes on without a national government. The trains run on time, the beer flows cold and plentiful, and the Belgian national soccer team still can't score. The drifting apart of Belgium's linguistic communities could augur the end for a country once hailed as a model of compromise and coexistence. Hoeilaart's elders have clearly had enough of that model. But no one knows what can replace...
...future coxswain, Paul Hoffman ’68, who taped a Mexico travel poster on the Newell Boathouse locker room on his very day as a freshman in 1963. Hoffman’s ability to stir the Harvard varsity even as a freshman proved quite the augur: he was almost expelled from the 1968 Games the night before the men’s crew final for apparent complicity in the “Black Power” protest U.S. track stars Tommie Smith and John Carlos made on the podium. Had Hoffman been booted the night before the final...
...Road to Democracy? Re "Pakistan's Reluctant Hero" [June 25-July 2]: The tussle between suspended Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry and President Pervez Musharraf seems to augur well for the country's pro-democracy movement. At least the sacked Chief Justice has been able to convince the democracy lovers that there is light at the end of the tunnel, that it's not impossible to end the rule of dictators backed by men in military uniform. Now it's time for other pro-democracy leaders to get under one umbrella and offer a progressive vision...
Despite the tensions, the uneasy state of the relationship need not augur a renewed cold war. The longer-term trends simply do not favor the more nostalgic dreams of the Kremlin rulers. For all of Russia's economic recovery, its prospects are uncertain. Russia's population is dramatically shrinking, even as its Asian neighbors are growing and expanding their military and economic might. The glamour of Moscow and the glitter of St. Petersburg cannot obscure the fact that much of Russia still lacks a basic modern infrastructure...