Word: portent
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Perhaps the best portent from last week was Rabin's repeated insistence that Israel would continue talking peace with the Palestinians even in the face of such a frightening and grisly assault. Although Israeli confidence in the virtues of accommodation with the Palestinians has been shaken, Hamas may have actually improved the prospects for peace by laying down a challenge the Israelis can only answer. "We can't afford to grant them the satisfaction of stopping the talks," says Health Minister Ephraim Sneh. "We have to defeat them, not surrender to their demands." That may entail accepting a less perfect...
...team's opener, a convincing 11-5 win over Brandies, might have been a portent of the team's imminent success, but it wasn't until the second meet of the season, a triangular with Columbia and Princeton on December 4, that the team knew that it had the talent to put forth a ground-breaking season...
...party loses regional election -- a portent of its national demise...
...able to really assess Clinton'sinaugural until we see him in retrospect," saidVanderbilt University professor Erwin Hargrove."Inaugurals are a portent for the futurepresidency...
...Columbus, a director who can make a routine shot of a couple of airplanes taking off artful and full of portent, who completes our entrancement. He has -- no kidding -- a vision of New York City, a nicely dislocating blend of charm and grunge. It's not quite real, not entirely fanciful. It is a child's-eye view of the place, full of glamorous shimmer and eerie shadows, a haunted Disneyland...