Word: foreshadow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...debate acquired special pungency because the week's news indicated that the economy is still bumping along the bottom of the painful slump that began in July 1981. The Government's index of leading indicators, the statistics thought to foreshadow most accurately future business trends, dropped .9% in August, after four months of upticks. Reagan dismissed this in advance as "a glitch" in a pattern of generally hopeful signs; Democrats saw much more than a glitch...
However, more immediate fears are predicated on what would happen if the oil supply to industrialized countries was suddenly cut off. The Arab oil embargo in 1973 and the fall of the shah in 1978 were oil shocks which, according to Yergin, could foreshadow a more rehabilitating oil stoppage. Those two events alone hiked the price of OPEC oil by four and two-and-a-half times respectively, clearly contributing to the West's high inflation and unemployment rates. Yergin predicts that a third oil shock could shake the economic systems of Western countries that have not yet learned...
Harvard is by no means the only Ivy League school to discover that the Achievements more closely foreshadow academic performance: Dartmouth is currently shifting slightly towards the tests, and Princeton officials have found the scores to be particularly revealing--especially in comparing students with similarly stratospheric SAT scores. Harvard was just "stating what a lot of us think is true." Princeton dean of admissions James Wickenden says...
Finally, there is Reagan's promise that registration "does not foreshadow a return to the draft." He reiterated his belief that "only in the most severe national emergency does the Government have a claim to the mandatory service of its young people." Again, we are not reassured. The president has already demonstrated that his "moral" convictions are easily toppled when burdened with enough political pressure. Furthermore, he has failed altogether to explain what type of national emergency would require a draft and whether conscription might conceivably begin independent of a shooting...
...score has two powerful moments that foreshadow the composer's mature style. The first comes in the opening, when the heroine Odabella (Soprano Marilyn Zschau) confronts Attila (Bass Samuel Ramey), who has just killed her father and razed her city, Aquileia. In a fiery aria laced with coloratura, she swears vengeance. Around her a chorus of barbarians praises Attila's conquests. The scene is an early example of the art of dramatic juxtaposition perfected at the end of the third act of Otello, with lago gloating over his fallen master as the Venetians outside sing the Moor...