Word: boded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...would be, predicted Howard Puig, assistant manager of the hotel's disco, "the night of the year." On the mezzanine, gamblers were already crowding into the posh casino. Through the large picture windows they could see the pounding surf and a clear blue afternoon sky that seemed to bode well. As bettors hunched forward for yet another round of blackjack and croupiers gave the roulette wheels an added spin, there came a whisper: "Smoke." Nobody paid any attention...
This doesn't bode well for Messrs. MacFarlane, North and Poindexter, who, for the sake of their cause, resisted all temptation to raid the till...
Education about sexual behavior among those at risk for AIDS works. A precipitous fall--on the order of 75 percent--in the rate of venereal infection among homosexual men in some urban areas has shown the efficacy of education for behavioral change. Examples like that bode well for an education effort to address the fact that teenage girls in the U.S. are five times more likely to get pregnant than those in other countries, and that 60 percent of Black children are born out of wedlock. Studies of programs in schools show that neither distributing contraceptives nor educating teens about...
...president of the Ivy Group, the League's administrative body, Jeffrey H. Orleans, says that these trends bode well for the future of Ivy League sports. "The Ivy League," he says, "demonstrates that you can maintain standards and still have very good competition...
That Cohen and his friends are willing to treat Blacks unequally not only violates the law, but does not bode well for the future of democratic society. Their views are symptomatic of a growing tendency to deny that Blacks are full-fledged citizens since they have failed to pull themselves up by the bootstraps and "make it" in white middle class society...