Portending a dilemma faced even on today's tablets, ViewSonic, an early supporter, offered a (wired) keyboard for its two models.

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This was an auspicious beginning to a new chapter portending radical transformation.

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Those who rely on past relationships between the monetary base and economic activity have taken the rapid growth in the base as portending very rapid inflation.

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They view the calendar as portending the end of one era and heralding the start of a new one, not the death of all the world's species.

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Second, the cost of military pay and benefits continues to increase steadily, portending the future migration of money out of weapons accounts to cover costs of the All Volunteer Force.

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Gephardt chastised the White House for aggressively pursuing moderate Republicans who have long supported the Norwood bill, portending political arguments if Republicans don't pass a bill before the long August recess.

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Mr. Dadey and other government transparency advocates said they worry that a pair of Supreme Court decisions in 2010 that paved the way for increased outside spending on the federal level in the form of so-called super PACs made donors more comfortable with doing so on the city level, portending a possible shift this year.

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