Word: foreshadow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...price rises have been so modest that Treasury Secretary Donald Regan has taken to asking in the manner of Clara ("Where's the beef?") Peller, "Where's the inflation?" Since January the consumer price index has risen at an annual rate of 4.5%. Producer prices, which often foreshadow trends in consumer costs, have gone up at a mild 1.8% pace so far this year and have actually declined for the past three months. Many economists think Volcker has room to nudge interest rates down by perhaps another percentage point without rekindling inflation...
...fact, Reagan has written half a dozen letters on his azure linen paper and sent them to Moscow. They all had a personal touch. Sometimes Reagan added a postscript, not the usual form in diplomatic messages. Other times he made certain to foreshadow events, like the fact that he would announce an idea for a chemical-warfare treaty and send Vice President George Bush to Geneva to present it. So far, Reagan is still waiting for a warm, even a human, reply...
...vocation come in letters later than those included here." His statement is, at the very least, open to question. On the subject of the Dreyfus case, for example, I am for the innocent captain and against the corrupt military men who accuse him of treason. These Dreyfusard letters foreshadow my special pleading for those whom society punishes by exclusion. And when I speak about a youthful search "for the grain of poetry indispensable to existence," I forecast the nuances of my later work, summoning up the floating vistas of Combray and the light-suffused salons of Paris...
...sheep have gone astray" (Isaiah 53:6). Reason: most of the Dani had never seen a sheep. "So," says Linguist David Scoville, "we thought of using a pig as a 'cultural equivalent.' " But then the missionaries had to contend with the succeeding verse, believed by Christians to foreshadow the Crucifixion, describing a lamb that is quietly "led to the slaughter." The translators decided they could not substitute pig for lamb in that context because pigs make a squealing commotion before they are killed. What to do? Happily, the mission was beginning to introduce sheep for farming. The linguists...
Jewett said declines in the early action pool often foreshadow a decline in the overall pool. But he added that he would be much more concerned it early returns showed a sharp decrease of interest in one region or it the early applicants turn out to be less talented overall than previous groups...