Word: augured
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...economic restructuring. Yet the use of force against strikers would shatter the government's pretensions of openness and democratization, ruining any chance of winning public support for the proposed reforms. The seeming failure of such innovations to produce concrete results and gain popular backing in Poland does not augur well for the future of restructuring efforts elsewhere in the East bloc, including the Soviet Union...
...other side when armed police moved in. The youths took up a chant: "We want Gorbachev!" In effect, they were invoking his new thinking to mitigate the brutality of the old order. The tactic did not work. The police cracked heads and dispersed the crowd. The moment did not augur well, either, for the more free-spirited citizens of the Soviet bloc or for Gorbachev himself. It demonstrated that, too often, Soviet power still comes from the barrel of a gun or the business end of a truncheon...
...adjusting smoothly to his new artificial heart. Within days after a Jarvik-7 pump was implanted in his chest late in August, the 25-year-old Phoenix assistant grocery manager was eating solid food, walking with help and doing leg and arm exercises. Drummond's steady progress seemed to augur well for the next phase of his treatment: a second operation, to remove the mechanical device, which had been implanted only as a stopgap measure, and to replace it with a human donor heart...
...which the U.S. enjoys significant advantages: offensive and defensive submarine warfare, bombers, cruise missiles and precision-guided conventional weapons. Superiority in those areas compensates for others where the Soviets have a numerical lead over the U.S., particularly land-based ballistic missiles. There are trends on both sides that augur badly for the stability of the military competition, but the superpowers are still in a state of rough equivalence...
...bolstering the College's paltry women's studies offerings. Only a few departments--such as Afro-American Studies, which now offers a course on Black women writers--have risen to the call. And, that so few departments bothered to vie for the new slot does not augur well for the futures of this grassroots approach...