Word: portends
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...fact, last year Lamb reported on Africans "changes that portend well for the future," an awakening to the need to develop long-ignored agricultural sectors, a realization that primary health-care must come before open-heart surgery. More Africans have access to education and health care than ever before and, in countries like Kenya and Nigeria, a substantial middle class is taking form. But Lamb's overall outlook for the continent is not optimistic...
...rise in consumer prices, flattened growth, ballooned the federal debt and pushed interest rates to their highest levels in the nation's history. Last week the rate banks charge their best corporate customers rose a quarter-point to 16.75%. The so-called leading economic indicators, which seek to portend future business trends, fell in January, the fourth consecutive monthly decline. Many economists regard this as a sign that the nation is near a recession...
...press secretary for the Brown campaign, says his candidate must garner more than the 13 per cent he picked up in the Maine caucuses February 10. Otherwise "we will have to immediately reassess the whole campaign." But he does not think a reassessment of the Brown campaign would necessarily portend its demise. Says Powers: "Brown has said that whatever the New Hampshire results are, he still wants to campaign...