Monday, September 26, 2011

Word of the Week #4

word:harbinger

Now, with the concentration of the highest unemployment rates in the South and the West, some economists and researchers wonder if it is an anomaly of the uneven recovery or a harbinger of things to come.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/27/us/unrelenting-downturn-is-redrawing-americas-economic-map.html?_r=1&hp

dictionary: noun
anything that foreshadows a future event; omen; sign: Frost isa harbinger of winter.

Most Americans are lossing there jobs, we might be on the harbinger of another recession.

1 comment:

  1. Your sentence doesn't work. How about: Continued American job losses may be the harbinger of another recession."
    4/5

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