Word: hindsight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...team's chemistry to survive disaffection; an ownership weakened by the financial fevers of big-time sports. The sources of affliction intrigue Halberstam, but on their trail he stumbles as badly as the team. His account is told at one remove. Throughout, the season is observed with 20/20 hindsight in the subjunctive mood that is the hallmark of Halberstam's style: "Later, he would realize...
...hindsight, some newspaper experts fault the Star's editorial strategy, although their analyses are often contradictory. Some argue that the paper should have stressed soft features and service articles, since the Post already offered a comprehensive package of local, national and foreign news. On the contrary, argues Ben Bagdikian, former Post national editor and now a journalism professor at the University of California at Berkeley: "I would have gone head to head against the Post in the morning . . . with a steady diet of authoritative, detailed pieces...
IMAGE BEFORE MY EYES doesn't linger on the horror, although anyone's hindsight makes this movie's underlying tension all the more chilling. Instead, director Josh Waletzky '68 locuses on the culture built up over centuries by the Jews of Poland, and Images acts as a powerful affirmation of a people who clung to hope in the face of the caprice of Europe. Waletzky, together with co-producer Susan Lazarus, has produced a stunning documentary, digging up a wealth of stunning stills and creating an almost surreal setting. The eyes in the manifold black-and-white photos and primitive...
There was no mystery about the sharp rises, at least in hindsight. Sensing that the U.S. economy is fundamentally strong and in no danger of recession, businessmen and consumers have stepped up short-term borrowing. Consumer credit in March increased by $3.1 billion to $310.8 billion, and bank loans to businesses rose in April by $1.9 billion to $170.1 billion...
...what about the way it has been taught for 20 years? That is, of course, the question. Hindsight clarifies all dilemmas, and there are some who wonder whether the essentials of management, particularly the quintessential mystery of dealing with people, can be taught at all. "If I could choose one degree for the people I hire, it would be English," says a senior vice president of the First Atlanta Corp. "I want people who can read and speak in the language we're dealing with...