Word: afterthought
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...takes a single pork chop. He recalls his lunch with the labor leaders. "Whew," he says. "Those fellas can be mean. They used a blowtorch on me. That's the first time George Meany has ever talked to me that way." Then comes a typical Carter afterthought: "Tough, but polite. I listened, but I don't think I satisfied them. The minimum-wage bill has labor mad. The farm-price-support bill has the farmers mad. Pretty soon we're going to announce the energy policy-and everybody will...
Harvard, the bastion of the Eastern establishment, has always been slow to adopt innovations, and Radcliffe has consistently been treated as something of an afterthought. Radcliffe's founders accepted Harvard's control in return for its high academic quality; but Baker repeatedly quotes past and present Harvard administrators speaking out against higher education for women; she shows again and again that Harvard has been unwilling to change its traditional structure to help women find a place here. The merger-nonmerger position, Baker argues, allows Radcliffe a superficial independence. Radcliffe controls the Radcliffe Institute funds, but effectively washes away responsibilities...
With the achievement of the first down now an afterthought, Johnson had to avoid Bill Emper somewhere near midfield, but the funny thing is that with the exception of the Crimson captain, and one will have to see the game films to verify this, it didn't appear that any other Harvard types came within even a life jacket of rescuing the touchdown for the home folks...
...implausible linkage of Jimmy Carter to lechery stemmed from some afterthought views on sexual mores that the candidate expressed in a wide-ranging interview that will appear in the November Playboy. The result of five hours of interviews given over a three-month period to Writer Robert Scheer, the Playboy article quotes Carter on such substantive topics as U.S. intervention in foreign countries, multinational corporations and the Mayaguez incident. But none of these created a stir...
According to McCurdy's calculations, "the thing balances up all the way down the line." McCurdy said Thursday that for Harvard to win the meet, "Somewhere along the line, somebody's going to have to do something he hasn't done yet." Almost as an afterthought, he added, "We think...