Word: afterthought
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...many companies, exporting has always been something of an afterthought, but in my corporation we consider foreign sales every bit as important as our domestic business." So says E. J. White, marketing vice president for Crompton Co. of New York, a medium-size textile maker (1979 sales: $159 million). Reason: in the past seven years, Crompton's export business has leaped from zero to 30% of its annual sales...
...remains a great mentor for the world in the leadership business." Additional insights came from President Harry Truman, by way of Rosalynn Carter, whom Sidey interviewed for the story. "She had been reading his memoirs and had come up with a favorite quotation: 'Any schoolboy's afterthought is worth more than the forethought of the greatest statesman.' I think she was trying to tell me something, but with a smile...
...music of Elvis Costello is an extraordinarily detailed delineation of the twists and turns of a single tortured, adolescent mind. It's not us, but it's not that far removed; you may feel it next time you masturbate. In "High Fidelity," Elvis gives us, for once, a moral afterthought, a vicious vision of silliness; two people cheating on each other, bugged by each other, hating each other, communicating foggily through the airwaves...
...enjoyed having her on my team as much as anyone I've ever coached," diving coach John Walker said unabashedly. "She's extremely humble, always considerate and just a lot of fun to be around. Put her on a board and she dives well, too," he adds as an afterthought...
...afterthought, Dole included several witnesses who held, in line with First Amendment principles, that Government should not crack down on religious organizations unless they break the law. The bulk of the witnesses were anticult, however, and though they were openly, and understandably, hostile to the Moonies and other groups under discussion, they were unable to offer hard evidence of criminality, much less Jones-type mass murder. Nor did they define precisely what distinguishes a "cult" from an acceptable religion...