Word: afterthought
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...committed to truth and who is willing to sacrifice himself for justice, while these "ordinary guys" would be hard-pressed to spell "justice" before taking a poll. The irony of the special convocation two weeks ago is that Mandela seemed like an artifact receiving his honorary degree--a romantic afterthought in an age that has forgotten that men like him exist...
...Grove told TIME Daily that the industry is entering what he calls "the Valley of Death," a destructive period of time in which "the players will change, the technology will change, and the devices will change." What started as general-purpose computers with networking capability added almost as an afterthought, he said, will metamorphosize into network machines that also do computing...
Post-season play--which seems like an afterthought to much of the baseball community--will occur without the services of the reigning home run king, but Trachsel's Cubs are in the thick of the National League Wild Card race...
...when a local writer walked unannounced into the office of Franklin Memorial Hospital president Richard Batt to explain that he could not pay for his son's hospitalization, Batt wanted to help the man meet his obligation honorably. After agreeing to adjust the bill, Batt asked--in an afterthought really--if the writer would help rework the hospital's brochures. "It was a transforming experience," Batt says. "This man arrived in tears and left feeling good that he could help...
Tension was high and the weather conditions were abominable, but Harvard played with the will that a team needs in order to contend for a national championship. A national title, merely an afterthought at the start of Harvard's season, was what Harvard was pursuing now. And in the 142nd minute of play, the Crimson took one more step toward attaining that goal...