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...been rising, relative to the other 49, slowly but measurably in some rankings of well-being. In a 1991 poll, the nation's Governors were asked which collegue they would rate the most effective; Clinton got more votes (39%) than anyone else. That, however, is not necessarily an omen of national success. Two years before the last presidential election, the same accolade went to Dukakis...
...America not going too far in its ties with the Pacific Rim but linked to Europe. The fact that the U.S., as a member of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, is a full member of a European institution, and not an outsider, is an excellent omen...
...choice of word is instructive. Its image is not its origin. Monster conjures up a three-headed Cerberus at the gates of Hades. Etymologically, however, the word has few frills. It is related to demonstrate and to remonstrate, and ultimately comes from the Latin monstrum, an omen portending the will of the gods, which is itself linked to the verb monere, to warn. If a city sinned against heaven, heaven sent it a monster. One can argue that the Sphinx, who confronted travelers to Thebes with her famous riddle, was born of some Oedipal crime and performed an important...
Jones calls her experience at Maryland a very positive one, and her last race was a good omen for her Harvard career. She broke her personal record by a whopping 77 seconds in the 5000-meter...
...Komplektov's posting to Washington an unambiguous bad omen? "It isn't good," admits a Soviet Foreign Ministry official. "If Gorbachev were in complete control, if he didn't have to worry about the conservatives' power, Komplektov probably would have been retired...