Word: augur
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...everybody in the math community believes in the Putnam as an augur of future greatness. "Many think it's a frivolous exercise," says Kevin Lacker, one of last year's winners. "Doing well on the Putnam and doing good math research are two different tasks that take two different kinds of intelligence." In other words, there's hope for us all. Even a genius can flunk a math test--and sometimes that's a good thing. "If you're someone who only likes getting 100% on everything you do, you're going to find the Putnam quite distressing," Vakil says...
...Dehai and Hai Hongmei's matrimonial bed is laid with a thick quilt embroidered with the characters for "double happiness," words meant to augur good fortune for just-married Chinese couples. This should be a room of joy and hope, but Liu's mother doesn't want anyone investigating too closely. "Please," she says, "do not speak of this room." The marriage of Liu and Hai is a subject of shame, for they are not just husband and wife; they are also first cousins...
...best, if the LEI drops three straight months, it's supposed to augur a recession. But this is only the first one. So what you get is what the prevailing view at the Fed is - the economy is weak. But there's no recession at the moment, and there's not likely...
...last one to chart its own course, pursuing American interests and setting its own priorities whether the rest of the world goes along or not. And that could mean a reorientation in the Atlantic relationship. On a range of security and foreign-policy issues, the future seems to augur continental drift, if not an outright split. Though bound together by a military alliance and $1 billion in daily trade, Europe and the United States are increasingly marching to different beats?and there will be moments when the Bush Administration will pump up the volume. ?The new administration has experienced people...
...comedy. (Seen Robin Williams do anything funny recently?) Neither, alas, is happiness. (Why so quiet, Jerry Seinfeld?) DeGeneres is dealing with a triple-barreled assault on her humor resources. And perhaps it's better to be happy and a hero than to be funny. But it doesn't augur well for her new comedy-variety show, scheduled to air on CBS in November, which she, worryingly, describes as an old-fashioned comedy show. Please, Ellen, no hugs...