Word: omen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hope it's an omen...
...sluggish housing market is not only a bad omen for the current health of the economy; it is also a sure sign of more trouble to come. Because of years of insufficient construction, the U.S. has developed an acute shortage of moderately priced housing. More and more members of the baby-boom generation are now moving into the prime home-buying age group. Divorce, single-person households and the great migration of people to the Sunbelt and the Northwest have placed further strains on the existing housing supply...
...they are anxious to broaden its base. Put differently, winning is more fun than losing. Said Arizona Congressman John Rhodes, the convention's permanent chairman: "Four years ago, we had the purists against the pragmatists. This year 90% of the people here are pragmatists. It's a good omen...
...Federal Reserve responded last week to the economic storm clouds by beginning to dismantle the credit restrictions it had imposed only two months ago. This led to expectations that interest rates will continue dropping in the coming weeks. One encouraging omen was that inflation is perhaps beginning to abate at last. Consumer prices during the month of April rose at an annual rate of only 11.4%, down from the first quarter's horrifying 18.1% yearly level...
...might not turn out to be the source of the story's evil instead of its plaything. Then, too, his son's gifts for precognition and telepathy, also quickly established, do not seem to be evidence of demonic possession of the sort that The Exorcist and The Omen have conditioned audiences to expect from pretty children who act strangely...