Word: omen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That Northeastern tally wasn't as demoralizing as the shot from center ice that beat Grant Blair a year ago in the opening round, but it was a little omen: "This year's gonna be the same...
Oliver North does not seem superstitious, and thus did not take his beloved Navy's 27-7 shellacking by Army as an omen for what the week ahead had in store for him. He attended the grand old game in Philadelphia as the guest of Navy Secretary John Lehman. North, like the good soldier he insists he is, spent his week without complaining -- and without explaining...
...that several years of delicate negotiations lie ahead before GATT members admit China to the club. The Chinese, for instance, may request special treatment as a developing nation. Nevertheless, the fact that China has asked to sit down at the bargaining table with its trading partners is a promising omen...
...identical provisions appear in the two bills. Examples: both would entirely remove from the tax rolls some 6 million people below or just above the poverty line, and both would revive the so-called marriage penalty by ending the special deduction for families with two wage earners. Another good omen for the conference is that Packwood and Rostenkowski, who have had some testy exchanges in the past, are now talking friendly compromise. Says the Chicago Congressman: "The challenge is to take the best reforms from each" bill. Echoes the Oregon Senator: "Neither one of us will have pride of authorship...
...spat was a discouraging omen for a year on Capitol Hill that promises to be the fiscal equivalent of Apocalypse Now. Beginning this week, as the President delivers his delayed annual State of the Union address to Congress and submits his budget proposal for fiscal year 1987, the Government must face up to the full force of Gramm-Rudman, the automatic deficit-reduction measure enacted last year to balance the budget by 1991. Unless Congress and the White ^ House can fashion a budget that reduces the federal deficit (now estimated at more than $220 billion for fiscal 1986, which began...