Word: portending
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...State Department, Iran specialists were similarly uncertain about the degree of leftist and even Communist influence in the highly disorganized Khomeini regime. Was Khomeini really in charge or just presiding over an internal power struggle? Did the fall of the government of Prime Minister Mehdi Bazargan two weeks ago portend a new campaign by Iranian leftists to seize power for themselves? One puzzling element in the recent unrest was the sudden fall from favor of Ibrahim Yazdi, who had been one of Khomeini's closest courtiers during the Ayatullah's last days in exile in France. Partly because...
...addition, the bureau found that one of every five households now consists of just one person, up 54% since 1970. But it warned that the data "do not necessarily portend a sharp rise in lifelong singleness." Most of the increase is accounted for by widows and young people postponing marriage. Other studies show that living together is largely a way station en route from bachelorhood to matrimony...
Cyrus Vance: "The Islamic resurgence in a number of countries indicates a return to fundamental roots and a greater reliance on principles that were pushed aside in the move toward modernization." The revival of Islam does not portend a regressive return to the past or a rejection of all international ties, in the Administration's view. Muslim nations will continue to require economic support from and want to cooperate with Western industrialized countries...
...White House even now is making plans to invite the new/old Congress down for orange juice and Coke. The mood may portend that the President and Congress are coming closer, though that should not for a minute hold out bright hopes for an easy time in Government. Democracy remains ornery...
...came to draw tourist dollars into Quebec's badly sagging economy. Levesque's second motive was more farsighted, somewhat subtler and far more important. He came to Harvard and to America to convince citizens and policymakers in this country that his independentist plans for Quebec are reasonable, moderate, and portend few if any substantive changes in Quebec-U.S. relations...