Word: omens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...scary omen for the remainder of the season came in the team's last home meet, a quadrangular with Penn, Albany and Rutgers on February...
...Ducey asserted that this type of drinking isn't necessarily problem drinking. He said that instance of misusing alcohol have many sources. "[W]Omen's problem drinking is traced to the break-up of romantic relation ships more frequently than problem drinking in men," he said...
...week showed them all marching ahead. Even the few contrary reports needed qualification. New- home sales dropped a bit in October from a blistering September pace, but sales of used homes hit a 14-year high. November retail-sales gains were only so-so, which might be a bad omen for the all important Christmas season. But simultaneously, consumer confidence, as measured by the Conference Board, a business-research group, jumped 11 points in November to an index number of 72.2, still relatively low but the highest since January...
...institution committed to the organizational principle of "every tub on its own bottom," Lowell's interdict against seeking donors was a terrible omen, one that would re-emerge some six decades later when the museum's director, professor of archaeology Lawrence Stager, would not raise money himself and barred others from doing so besides. But this jumps ahead of the story...
...getting out almost as soon as they got in. The alleged U.S. dithering at one point caused the Secretary-General to exclaim, "All my experience tells me not to trust the U.S. You are unpredictable and change your minds too often!" Whoever is right, the discord was an unhappy omen of future trouble...