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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...
Tanaka's failure to mollify the Thai students does not augur well for the rest of his good-will mission in Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia. His first stop had been in Manila and had gone with deceptive smoothness. That was largely due to a state of martial law that prevented any anti-Japanese outbursts and the eagerness of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos for injections of more Japanese capital. But during the rest of his itinerary, Tanaka will be faced with the threat of more anti-Japanese demonstrations. Moreover, Tanaka can scarcely assure his Southeast Asian trading partners of more...
...minimum - as were legitimate line drives and flashy fielding plays. In fact, the game was altogether less competitive than last year's, which had ended in a 20-20 tie and raised voices. The deciding factor Assistants' proved defenses, to be which the leaks might in augur the ill for the Administration. The final tally: 10-9, in favor of Sam's Sluggers...