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But industry observers say it could portend problems as RealNetworks delves deeper into the entertainment market.

While Mr. Murstein said he was looking forward to the sale, it could portend trouble for his company's finances if it undercut the medallions' value.

Like many of the changes, the move to New York represents a further shift away from AOL's roots, and analysts said it could portend job layoffs for some of the 4,000 employees based in Northern Virginia.

Commissioner Bud Selig considered Correa's selection a great moment for baseball, saying that it could portend great things for Puerto Rico.

And though that may be welcome news for politicians such as Mr Ramsey, it could portend disaster for farmers.

And it could portend a more widespread exhaustion with film and television projects that are adapted from comic books and that are constantly starting over from scratch.

But the effort deserves some scrutiny because although it was conceived locally by Michael J. Fisch, publisher and president of the newspaper, it could portend things to come at Gannett, which has 84 daily newspapers and 850 nondaily publications.

With the rule beginning to bear fruit in this case, legal experts say, it could portend a wave of other actions against banks and hedge funds that build outsize trading positions.

Though neither is likely to join the list because of Shopping.com, it could portend a bright future beyond 2005.

If the company improves upon last year's Black Friday numbers, it could portend a strong fourth quarter, and a white Christmas for Whitman.

Countless polls will be taken over the coming days and weeks to see what effect Mr Obama's words had on public opinion and what it could portend for the elections in November.