Word: foreshadowing
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...sold arms to Jordan, Saudi Arabia and other Arab states that played minor roles in the 1973 war. This month, though, Washington announced that it intends to sell six C-130 Hercules military transport planes to Egypt (total cost: $50 million). Fearing that this may merely foreshadow future large-scale arms shipments to the Egyptians, leaders of American Jewish organizations last week warned President Ford they were "strenuously opposed" to the deal, and that any further sales to Cairo might alienate Jewish voters. The Administration, which anticipated the "calculated outrage" of the Jewish community, argues that the sale helps Cairo...
Disability does not necessarily foreshadow trouble in the presidency, any more than robustness assures success. But being of sound body at the start helps narrow the odds. Every candidate owes it to himself and the people to follow Ford's lead...
...pace of the U.S. economic recovery is slowing a little, after an unsustainable early burst. Last week the Government reported that its index of leading indicators-statistics that foreshadow trends in the economy-dropped in October for the second month in a row. That was the first two-month decline since early 1975, and together with earlier reports showing a rise in unemployment and an acceleration of inflation in October, it suggested a disquieting pattern...
...business moves into its traditionally bustling fall season, signs of a quickening recovery from the nation's most severe postwar recession are multiplying. Employment, store sales, industrial production and corporate profits have all turned up; the leading indicators -those statistics that tend to foreshadow future economic trends-have shown an exceptionally strong rise in the past five months (see chart). Yet the figures are breeding no euphoria; instead, many bankers, businessmen and economists see danger signals ahead. Their big worry is that a combination of resurging inflation, tight money, climbing interest rates, and inadequate Government stimulus to the economy...
...digit inflation? So it seemed last month when the Government announced that consumer prices had surged ahead at a compounded annual rate of 15.4% in July. But the latest signs are inconclusive, if by no means reassuring. The Labor Department reported last week that wholesale prices−which usually foreshadow consumer price movements by several months−;rose by "only" 0.8% in August, after a big 1.2% jump in July. The August increase, which translates into a 9.6% annual rate, was held down mainly by a drop in prices for farm products, but the figures also showed ominous increases...