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But there is an argument for looking at such oddities as portents for the future.
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Indeed on most criteria, the portents of trouble were more marked than in past crises.
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That said, however, portents for the presidential stakes in 2010 have become even more clouded than they were pre-election.
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Although angry investors sputtered about the surprise announcement, citing Conservative campaign promises to leave the sector alone, the portents were all there.
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There's plenty to worry and write about, but the portents remain positive.
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The Bhutanese read many evil portents into the Tiger's Lair attack.
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If that were true, the portents really would be bleak.
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PRI, the Guerrero vote carried two worrying portents for 2006.
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Similarly, one camp maintains that temperatures are rising dramatically with unspeakable portents, while the other thinks what has happened is entirely a result of undefined internal oscillations in the earth-sun climate system, and that there is virtually no human component to climate change.
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The portents are mixed.
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