Word: foreshadowing
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...calendar reform committee’s report will be discussed by the Faculty at its April 20 meeting, which will foreshadow the discussion of the curricular review report, which is scheduled to take place...
...decision that may foreshadow broad recruiting cuts in Ivy League athletics, the league’s athletic directors have agreed on a preliminary recommendation that each of their football teams reduce the maximum number of football recruits per year from 35 to 30 players...
...chair of the history department, Kirby made positive reforms to the history curriculum and returned the tutorial program to the heart of the department. These changes were especially beneficial to undergraduates, and we hope they foreshadow similar constructive changes within...
Earlier Vargas Llosa novels such as The City and the Dogs (survival of the fittest at a Peruvian boys' school, published in 1963) and Conversation in the Cathedral (entrenched corruption in Lima, 1969) foreshadow the harsh realism of this latest book. There are two main story lines. One is the sorrowful history of the Trujillo era, ending with his assassination. The other is the tale of Urania Cabral, a handsome New York City lawyer who returns to the Dominican Republic after a 30-year absence to visit her dying father and exorcise her demons...
...Circumstantial evidence? Perhaps. But it would be folly to ignore the disturbing notes that pop up on Channel 2 and too often foreshadow real-life horrors. In May last year a 17-year-old boy hijacked a bus in Fukuoka prefecture, held 10 passengers hostage and stabbed one to death during a 15-hour, 279-km ride of terror. An hour before boarding the bus, he had left a cryptic message on the Channel 2 bulletin board: "Saga City (near Fukuoka) 17-year-old, heh heh heh heh heh." A week later, another 17-year-old announced online that...