Word: hindsight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hindsight it is hard to believe that a lustrous political career could hang on such prosaic details. Moreover, the Herald's stakeout would have been infinitely more difficult at a later stage in the campaign, when Hart would have warranted Secret Service protection. In short, for want of a lookout a presidential campaign was lost. It ultimately made little difference that Hart told Herald reporters Saturday night, "I have no personal relationship with the woman you are following...
Even discounting for hindsight, however, Frankfurter's insensitivity in the matter must finally be counted a lapse. Had the public known three decades ago that the Government was able to make a winning argument because it had been tipped to the views of each Justice, the moral authority that Frankfurter so husbanded for the court would have been seriously tarnished...
...labor practices, her provision of nearly a year's work for $10,000 raises an issue of equity. But the real issue lies in the nature of the service; and seeing the mess where their bargain has lead, one wonders if Stern or Whitehead even considered consequences that in hindsight seem inevitable...
...during the summer of 1978. These remarkably ordinary visitors have no way of knowing they have jetted into a maelstrom, a seething revolution that will soon topple the Shah, rearrange the balances of power and terror in the Middle East and seriously frazzle two successive American presidencies. But in hindsight from 1987, when all of this is known, anyone who was in Iran then, even only in make-believe, can be made to seem interesting...
...contrast, last week's open letter sets up not a committee of investigation, but one of prevention. We trust that the letter represents a real change in stance from hindsight to foresight...