Word: omen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Freshman Week came. Freshman Week went. Not a good omen for my Harvard career. Neither was my first Harvard rejection, a remarkable construction of logic utilizing four carefully reasoned planks...
...confessed believer in Armageddon theology.) Walvoord is chancellor of Dallas Theological Seminary, where Charles H. Dyer is associate professor of Bible exposition. Dyer's new book, The Rise of Babylon, which argues that Saddam's announced plan to build a replica of that ancient city is an omen of the Last Days, has sold 180,000 copies just in the past two weeks. Ratings are up for conservative televangelists who preach about impending apocalypse. Among them is the Rev. Jack Van Impe of Detroit, whose scriptural prophecies point to an Iraqi defeat but also to eventual world war in this...
...extra copies are a bad omen. Patients that have them suffer three times the rate of cancer recurrence of other patients, says UCLA oncologist Dr. $ Dennis Slamon. Such patients, he says, should "absolutely" get further treatment. But one genetic abnormality is not enough to transform healthy, law-abiding breast cells into anarchic tumors. "The genes responsible for this disease are like pieces of a patchwork quilt," says geneticist Mary- Claire King of the University of California, Berkeley. The patchwork pattern may vary from one woman to the next, but each case probably involves five or six separate mutations occurring over...
...from California? Look at your auto insurance bill. You'll see that 1% is earmarked for the insurance guaranty fund. Right now, that's enough to cover the occasional insolvency. But what if Transit Casualty proves to be an omen rather than an isolated incident? Here was this little company that never earned more than $60 million in net premiums in any year -- peanuts, in the insurance industry -- and then went broke. How much of a problem can that be, one wonders? How much can a company like that lose...
...victory over Yale may be a positive omen for the upcoming season...