Both are creative decisions Albu says could have been foretelling of Wang's own marital woes.

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The presidency in recent times can be seen as foretelling the direction the republic is moving towards.

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But the tremors foretelling an economic apocalypse are there: Its once vaunted individual savings rate, for example, has virtually disappeared.

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Yet export volumes have been growing strongly despite surveys foretelling a slowdown.

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Shortly before Suthat died in 1974, Mr. Thongbai said his son made a series of strange pronouncements, as well as foretelling that he would soon pass away.

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The foretelling is absolute and amounts almost to an order.

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It could be seen in shorter-term market moves in each of the last three years, when the stock market rolled over into corrections each spring foretelling the economic slowdowns in each of the last three summers, and then recovered in the summer and fall with the economic recovery getting back on track.

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