While the bombast of uber-polished boyband pop was in the offing, much of the soundtrack of those years was decidedly female.
When it became clear that a merger was in the offing, the owners of the remaining ABA teams met.
Half a century later, another historic social change was in the offing, and the warnings of impending disaster were at least as dire.
I knew I was taking a risk because a change of ownership was in the offing.
When you didn't know this was in the offing, it was a source of pride".
But this time the Tigers must have been aware, in detail, of what was in the offing.
By the time Copernicus was closed down, another major change in astronomy was in the offing, namely a rebirth in the importance of optical astronomy.
Preceding Reid on stage, Michigan Democrat Debbie Stabenow also suggested that reform of the Senate rules was in the offing.
But there were plenty of reasons to believe an upset was in the offing.
But Admiral Lord West, the former head of the Navy, said this implied an intervention was in the offing.
War, it seemed, was in the offing.
