Word: omen
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Javanese rulers have long gazed upon an eruption of Mount Merapi as an omen of troubled times ahead. So when the central Java volcano began sputtering and oozing lava early last week, many Indonesians recognized a portent of ill tidings for President Abdurrahman Wahid, the nearly blind 60-year-old Muslim cleric who has fitfully governed the country for the past 15 months...
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...Omen An asteroid large enough to wipe out France came within 800,000 km of hitting Earth?and was spotted by astronomers only days before it hurtled past...
...Omen To mark the introduction of the new European currency, prostitutes in both Rome and Berlin say they will round down their prices for sex paid in euros...
...Omen number 2: In a concurring statement, Justice Antonin Scalia said that the stay had a "substantial probability" of becoming permanent...