Word: hindsight
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...Republicans are not creative, not imaginative, but they are terrific on hindsight," Humphrey said...
...Deal, cannot do a satisfactory job if he has to denounce all the time what he is trying to explain, in order to protect himself against the charge of being a champion of all the evils of what he is writing or talking about. If, in the light of hindsight, I had to do it all over again, I probably would decide not to write and speak about Fascism as I did. I would so decide, not because I now see error in my thesis, but because I now realize that the price is too high which a political theorist...
Since World War II (he served in the Welch Regiment and in Intelligence), Powell has resumed writing a series of novels in which he looks back with wry hindsight on the middling years of his life and on the causes of the discontents gnawing away at his class. The low-decibel tone in which he has written his eleven books may explain why he has almost escaped attention in the U.S. The earlier installments of this series (A Question of Upbringing, A Buyer's Market) never sold as many as 5,000 copies in the U.S. The latest installment...
...school made no effort to prepare students psychologically or to provide sufficient protection for Miss Lucy, he asserted. "Of course hindsight is better than foresight, and we don't have a riot squad in Tuscaloosa, but better precautions should have been taken," he added...
ECONOMISTS," Stuart Chase once remarked, "are almost invariably engaged in defeating the last slump." For long years, U.S. economists were, in fact, best known for their hindsight. But in recent years, business analysts have come out of the ivory tower and into the marketplace. Dozens of organizations, e.g., the Council for Economic Development, the Twentieth Century Fund, keep the public informed on business trends. In business and in government today, few decisions are made without an' economic "fix" from an expert...