Word: foreshadowing
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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...
Still, the spot market's softness probably does not foreshadow lower fuel costs for consumers. The mini-glut is nearly microscopic: there is an estimated surplus of no more than 800,000 bbl., out of a total non-Communist worldwide production of about 53 million bbl. per day. "It is absurd to talk of a glut," says one West German oilman. "So long as any one of a number of oil-producing nations can create shortages, the world's energy supply hangs by an exceedingly thin thread...
...these departmental hardships combined with a projected Faculty budget deficit of $785,000 for the current year foreshadow future double-digit tuition hikes. "Unfortunately, I don't see too many positives on the horizon," Gerrity said...