Word: afterthought
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Efforts would be made to reduce overall medical costs by developing preventive-care programs and thus cutting down on hospital admissions. A watchdog commission, added to the Administration proposals as an eleventh-hour afterthought, would have regulatory power over the private health-insurance industry, including authority to prevent unwarranted increases in coverage costs...
...MIGHT suspect that even one of Paramount's Assistant Vice-Presidents in Charge of Marketing and Promotion could have foreseen the folly inherent in previewing Love Story before a specially-invited Harvard audience. But then, what with the phenomenal success of Erich Segal's literary afterthought of the same name as well as the almost certain success of the film, well, what the hell, with all that behind you, it was about time you took a few chances...
...Finally, the summary says that in the FBI interviews with Guardsmen, mention of imminent danger occurs "almost as an afterthought ... We have some reason to believe that the claim . . . that their lives were endangered by the students was fabricated subsequent to the event...
Almost as an afterthought, Miami threw its boater into the ring. "We know we don't have the history stuff, but we sure want to be part of the national celebration," explained a local booster...
Some radio stations spend hundreds of dollars on Peabody presentations, but for Mickie and Teddi, it was hardly more than a casual afterthought. WRNG's program manager gave them an entry blank he had lying around...