Word: hindsight
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...about the cats (“How are Castor and Pollux?”) always followed the personal greeting when we called my grandmother. One of the Presbyterian goldfish lived for five years with my three cats drinking out of his bowl. I had named him Crackers, which in hindsight is an incredibly funny and racially charged name for a goldfish in a family of white Kentuckians. My mom called a veternarian specializing in fish when Crackers got “sick” (how do you know when a fish is sick?), who informed her that he specialized...
...surviving one tower - only to be metaphorically crushed by another. And ironically, it may have been the unimaginable scale of her suffering that gave her the freedom to tell her story any way she wanted, without the burdens of consistency or specificity. Then again, that could all be hindsight talking...
...noted that the Secret Service and the CIA also had offices in that building. The center was above ground level, leaving it less prone to flood damage (a serious concern in lower Manhattan), and it was within walking distance of City Hall - one of Giuliani's priorities. "In hindsight, it's pretty bad," says John Farmer Jr., senior counsel to the 9/11 commission and the person in charge of reconstructing the response to the attacks for the investigation. "But that's a tough call...
...adds: "We're probably the first generation in history to have the benefit of hindsight and time to plan for the future, not only to implement the measures effectively but to plan for the adverse unintended consequences of social-distancing strategies," says Cetron. Now that sounds a lot like prevention...
...back-and-forth between Paulison and lawmakers was tense, with repeated interruptions as they hammered home his agency's repeated failures. After Paulison said that the chairman's criticism was unfair because hindsight has made the situation clearer, Rep. Waxman responded, "Your own staff told you at the time there was a problem. That's not hindsight. That's a lack of foresight." Yet, despite striking testimony by victims and his seeming acknowledgment that mistakes were made ("we're recognizing that we may have something larger than just some individual cases"), Paulison still maintained that formaldehyde might...