Word: portends
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...also significant for the unfolding history of the United States? Does it portend a new era with a new class struggling successfully for power; a new and potent force trying to re-arrange events closer to its heart's desire...
...followed Haughton up the corporate ladder. In fact, Lockheed's management has been in lock step for several years, with Haughton (pronounced Hawton) serving virtually as Court Gross's alter ego, and Kotchian acting as Haughton's. Not surprisingly, Haughton says that the new shifts portend "no great changes" in the company's course...
...Chief Judson Gooding had been on the track of Oregon's Mark Hatfield ever since moving from our Paris office last January. Gooding had come away from his first interview with a deep impression of his new source: "Hatfield drew me out on De Gaulle, what his policies portend for the Western alliance, for U.S. trade and for the future of Franco-American relations. His questions showed a remarkable depth of understanding...
...schools. "I would provide students with group experiences in drinking," he told a Conference on Alcohol and Food in Health and Disease at the New York Academy of Sciences last week, so that they might "familiarize themselves with their own reactions to alcohol and learn the signals that portend an unhappy drinking experience for themselves or their peers...
Poor Prospects. Labor's new militancy about working conditions and its steep economic demands do not necessarily portend a big increase in major strikes, which have actually been declining in recent years. Automation and the successful elimination of much union featherbedding have so reduced costs that some industries have already been able to grant substantial wage increases without damaging their profits. Record sales and earnings have also put many companies in a more generous mood than usual...