Word: precursors
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...Judging by current unemployment figures and mortgage delinquency rates the economy is getting worse as each month passes. According to TransUnion, a leading consumer credit reporting agency, mortgage loan delinquency, traditionally seen as a precursor to foreclosures, increased for the eighth quarter in a row. This statistic is up approximately 53% from the same period last year. Likely contributing to that rise, unemployment rose in February from 7.6 to 8.1%. And a new Reuters poll of economists forecasts that unemployment will top 10% as early as next year...
...levels of vitamin D are 40 percent more likely to report respiratory infections such as colds and flu. The study analyzed data from the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, in which 19,000 participants were tested for their blood levels of 25-hydroxyvitamin D—a precursor of the vitamin that is considered the best measure of its concentration. Study participants with the lowest vitamin D blood levels were found to be much more likely to report having a recent respiratory infection. This result was even more pronounced in those with a history of asthma or chronic...
...Cline said, emphasizing the implementation of a variety of cross-library initiatives, among them the consolidation of the serials management and technical services units. But as for the serials services unit now bound for Central Square, the move which is apparently aimed at consolidation may be a precursor to dissolution, according to a staff worker in the library system who asked not to be named in order to protect his relationship with the University. The individual said he fears that his future position in the Central Square facility will be a watered-down version of his original job, and indicative...
...spent her first nine years under medical care in "Quintland," a hospital that essentially doubled as a government-run theme park. Born in Ontario to a pair of devout Catholics (who had, and would produce, several additional children), the Dionne quintuplets were an immediate media sensation, a Depression-era precursor to today's Octomoms and Jon and Kates. Two months premature, weighing about 2 lb. each, Cecile, Annette, Yvonne, Marie and Emilie were quickly made wards of the state by authorities, who feared that their father would exploit them for his own financial benefit. Then, in a supreme irony...
...Many staffers said they have not heard news of impending layoffs, and that the possibility seems slim—Holt said he has been told that “nothing precipitous is going to happen with jobs.” But for some, the hiring halt seems a precursor to more drastic cuts. “It’s not possible to say that no one will be laid off,” said Richard E. Kaufman, a librarian in the psychology department. “I think that prospect is real, and that’s something that...