Bleak Present, Bleaker Future Burmese people talk hopefully, but passively, about the propitious power of the number 13.
Using a person's birth date, Vedic astrologers create charts to determine a lucky number and provide propitious dates for major events.
The white phone rings, the equerry wearily takes his hands from his chin, raises the receiver, listens with his long eyelids lowered, and in a trance transfers another chunk of the wealth of Egypt to red, or black, or whatever number is considered propitious by the zodiacal wizards of Alexandria or Cairo.
There are more propitious places to turn out.
"The next decade offers an especially propitious time to diversify the academy, because record numbers of new faculty will be hired to accommodate enrollment growth and wholesale retirements (more than one third of full-time faculty are 55 or older).
At times when the number of calls slowed, or at other propitious moments, I would have a friend make bogus calls to me.
There could not be a more propitious location for a meeting with Petite Meller than number 19 Berggasse in Vienna, home of the Sigmund Freud Museum and birthplace of modern psychoanalysis.
The propitious conditions will allow the chain to increase the number of major advertising pitches to eight from seven.
In a recent telephone interview Mr. Kelman discussed the data, along with numbers from a similar Redfin survey on the most propitious day of the week to list a home — which found that Fridays brought the quickest, most profitable results.
It is reflected in the preoccupation with counting the poor — do they number 30 million, 40 million, or 50 million?" Orshansky's timing was propitious.
That was propitious, he explained, because 216 is 107 plus 109, two consecutive prime numbers.
