Word: omens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...which turn a neat profit thanks to their gambling parlors), the company's hotel-and-clubs division continues to drain profits from the flagship magazine, and Hefner's ventures into moviemaking have been disastrous (his most recent film: The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder). In an unpleasant omen for any corporation, the two outside members of Playboy Enterprises' board of directors resigned last month, citing as their reason "the current adverse publicity...
...nations that high oil bills are a fact for the present, and should fortify their conservation efforts. Still, as consumers harken to Secretary Kissinger's contention that the cartel can be weakened through conservation and cooperation, the new dissent in the OPEC tent could be a faintly heartening omen...
...this roster of natural disasters an omen of worse weather to come? The forecasters can only guess. Even the most skilled meteorologists admit that theirs is one of the least exact sciences. But as they ponder the earth's current erratic weather and study their steadily increasing store of knowledge about past climate, more and more scientists are raising storm warnings for the future. At the very least, they foresee troublesome changes in global temperature and rainfall patterns that could seriously jeopardize the earth's ability to feed itself...
...enough to support the kind of philosophical freight such a montage would imply. Phase IV works best as a weird thriller and as a showcase for Bass's talents, which transform a story that could have been entirely silly into a bit of necromancy that lingers like an omen...
Several important indicators of the U.S. economy flashed some of their gloomiest signals ever last week. Wholesale prices leaped a frightening 3.9% in August alone, the second biggest one-month rise in 28 years. On top of a 3.7% surge in July, it was a sure omen of more explosive inflation in consumer prices. The news sent the stock market reeling to its nadir since November 1962. Meanwhile, economic activity continues to decline. Production in the nation's factories and mines dropped .4% in August; industrial production is now almost 2% lower than last October, when the Arab...