But behind the as-yet-undefined specifics of American policy, there appear to lie some new assumptions that augur well for success.
These infrastructure projects augur well for Caterpillar as they will increase the demand for construction equipment and machinery manufactured by the company.
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The fraying tempers do not augur well for the faint hope that still exists of launching a new round of multilateral trade talks this year.
Its comparatively high levels of education, relatively advanced social conditions, including the status of women, and a small, apolitical army, seemed to augur well for Tunisia's historic path.
In light of the slow PC growth, we feel a shifting focus to other markets is a welcome move for the company and should augur well for its outlook.
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On the other hand, his decisions to cut his own staff by 20%, to rule out tax rises and to shelve grandiose projects, including a new baseball stadium, augur well.
Such a convergence of opinion should augur well for easy passage -- except that there is a competing resolution, sponsored by eight senators including the powerful majority leader and presidential candidate Bob Dole.
Tellingly, shares of all of these banks sell at a discount to the rest of the stockmarket, notwithstanding their demonstrated resilience recently in surviving a recession and a deluge of litigation, as well as benign economic conditions that should augur well for future returns.
The broad and wide access to information does indeed augur well for greater and quicker collaboration across sectors and industries: an entire ecosystem of companies has been developed devoted to making the world as productive as the U.S. is while reducing worry about disease, drought and lack of resources.
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Which seems to lend support to the counter view about age: when we age, we seek to protect: Our family, our finances and our reputation do not augur risk well.
But recently revised forecasts from Nokia and Samsung, the world's No. 1 and No. 2 handset makers, as well as mobile chip-set manufacturer Qualcomm, augur trouble in 2009.
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