Barely a fortnight ago, Chancellor Gerhard Schröder was smugly describing 2000 as a "good year for Germany" and heralding 2001 as likely to be even better.
But the left is equally off-beam if it sees the speech as heralding a 1960s German-style era of tax-and-spend union-friendly social democracy, as if government coffers were bulging.
After the democracy-heralding euphoria of 2011 and the heroic struggles in 2012 to keep up the momentum towards political reform, in 2013 the Arab world fell back into a mood of misery and chaos.
Lovejoy added that it probably would not have been possible to conduct such sweeping research "five or ten years ago," heralding the power of combining fieldwork with big data to create powerful analyses.
Furthermore, eight of the 12 surveys we reviewed have been published or revised since 2012, heralding a movement among the research community to measure the state of undergraduate education.
There was an upturn in trade in 1892, heralding another period of growth in the industry.
The Advanced Manufacturing and Software Technology Center AMSTCC) opened its doors in Detroit in the fall of 2009, heralding in this new wave of progress for the state.
After four solid years of orchestrated insanity, the Republican party will nominate the steady, measured former governor of Florida Jeb Bush for president in 2012, heralding a conservative era of comparative stability and reason, rallying exhausted Republicans and luring frustrated Democrats.
The Institute of Contemporary Art -- long a funky outpost in Boston's small, staid constellation of art museums -- is scheduled to throw open the doors of a sparkling new, four-story museum on the city's waterfront in 2006, heralding what it hopes will be a new era of support for cutting-edge art.
Yet after leaving Southampton, UK, the waters settled a bit and Victoria peacefully arrived in New York Harbor on January 13th, heralding an historic moment when the three Queens (Queen Mary 2, Queen Elizabeth 2 and Victoria) all posed together under a shower of brilliant fireworks beside the Statue of Liberty.
