There are extraterrestrial apocalypses, such as asteroid impacts "guaranteed by the laws of physics and probability". On Earth, Hawking cited melting polar ice caps, loss of animal life and dwindling physical resources, among other ill portents.
Critics of Koolhaas see the Andreu building as an ill portent, and proof that avant-garde foreign architects will make the city look ridiculous rather than modern.
In another ill portent, Southern California Edison failed on Thursday to pay the $215 million it owes for the power it bought in December on the California Power Exchange.
Surrounding him were feathery transvestites, guys in football pads, topless men and women pawing at each other, and, in one sequence, a male aerialist, who portrayed an owl of ill portent.
There are ominous portents.
Mortgage applications are near a 15-year low, boding ill for the rest of the winter.
Hugely classy and absorbing, if boding ill for the current state of French feminism.
With only so much room to cut costs, analysts say that kind of performance will be difficult to repeat, perhaps boding ill for stocks this year.
With fewer youngsters working, Italy and Spain have seen a loss in productivity of about 2 percent, boding ill for future growth, Mr. Moëc estimated.
In a move that is widely viewed as boding ill for the approval of new AIDS drugs, a Federal administrator in charge of setting the guidelines on what drugs can be sold has asked to be transferred from her position.
After Jackie Aprile Michael Rispolii), the acting boss of the Soprano family, died of cancer in Episode 4 last year, his menacing brother Richie David Provall) now shows up, boding ill for Soprano family harmony.
