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...budget, which covers the fiscal year beginning July 1, seems rock-solid, especially in comparison with similar documents from other municipalities around the state. But even in Cambridge, the budget is showing sings of strain that may foreshadow trouble in the future...
Rabbit is so intrinsically a part of his time that its tagedies soon become his tragedies. As the common "older man" of the eighties buying into the Reagan dream, Rabbit is in less control than ever. Current events foreshadow his own vicissitudes in a Joycean way: the Pan Am explosion over Lockerbie, Scotland happens right before Rabbit's first heart attack; and as Hurricane Hugo kicks into South Carolina, Rabbit has his second, and final, attack. When the eighties inevitably crash, Rabbit and his family tumble with them...
...addition to providing innovative scholarship, the five-year-old joint project may also foreshadow future collaborative efforts between scholars of the two nations...
These inward-looking questions are not exactly the sweeping ideological issues which would foreshadow a major re-evaluation of Japan's global role. In fact, the Socialists are more isolationist than the Liberal Democrats--they even support a cancellation of Japan's security arrangement with...
These sentences foreshadow nearly everything to come in Spartina, although just how cleverly Casey tips his hand does not become clear until much later. Pierce's family once mattered in this region of Rhode Island, but not any longer. A succession of bad breaks has "squeezed him up Pierce Creek to an acre of scrub," where he lives in a ramshackle house with his wife May and two teenage sons and scrabbles a living as a fisherman. "He'd had a plan: by age 40 he would be master of a ship. Here he was at age 40-plus...