Word: portends
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...itself further authority to govern the country without express constitutional authority." For years conservatives have attacked judges, particularly Supreme Court Justices, for reading their own moral and political views into the Constitution. White's opinion was an unusually explicit acknowledgment of that criticism by a Justice, and it may portend greater deference by the court to the actions of elected officials...
...World News Tonight" would not broadcast the results of its exit polls. The network would wait until after the Eastern polls had closed. Imagine: all this for John Q. Public. CBS and NBC failed to match Arledge's self-restraint. Their evening newscasts reported voter trends and all they portend...
...debate, Panelist Marvin Kalb of NBC asked Ronald Reagan, "Do you feel that we are now heading, perhaps, for some kind of nuclear Armageddon?" While Nancy Reagan gasped, "Oh, no!" to companions, the President answered that, yes, he had chatted with people about "the biblical prophecies of what would portend the coming of Armageddon and so forth, and the fact that a number of theologians for the last decade or more have believed that this was true, that the prophecies are coming together that portend that." But, he added soothingly, "no one knows whether those prophecies mean that Armageddon...
...history of strikes at GM does not portend a short walkout. Past labor troubles have been long and rancorous. In 1945 U.A.W. President Walter Reuther led the autoworkers on a 113-day strike in an attempt to win a 330 an hour pay hike. Three months after the walkout began, Reuther was willing to accept an increase of 19.5?, but GM offered only 18.5?. As William Serrin recounts the story in The Company and the Union, the GM negotiator placed a cent on the bargaining table and said: "Walter, there it is, a penny. That's what this strike...
...back-to-basics moves in these departments--and the reform of grad programs in the History and English Departments and elsewhere--may portend a trend. "There's a cycle to these things not unlike the cycle of general education," says Phyllis C. Keller, associate dean for academic planning. "The last round of revisions ... was in the mid to late 60s, when the size of the graduate programs reached their peak" and they could afford to specialize, Keller adds...