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...future bargain. Another motive for releasing the records: a combination of personal revenge and belated remorse. "I was part of a team convinced that the way we did business was just fine," confesses Veliotis. "We were out to make money and to hell with the national interest. In hindsight I regret that attitude very much, and I'm paying...
Still, history through hindsight is a mug's game, and Buckley never forgets his plot or pace. If Blackford Oakes had a bit more wattage--his creator could spare some--he might be worth an additional sequel or two. As for Castro, one suspects that he is so plausible because Buckley shares many of his attributes --among them an affection for crowds. The author dedicates this book to 49 nephews and nieces and acknowledges help from 22 individuals. One of them, he says, "couldn't stand the book's title, and I think the world should know how heavily...
...approach, which seemed to them to be heading toward a national industrial policy. Alan Greenspan said it would lead inevitably to establishment of a Government board that would be making investment decisions more properly left to the market. Said he: "Those kinds of boards have 20-20 hindsight and extraordinarily inept foresight. Putting investment incentives in technologically advanced products is fine, but what are they? Who knows?" Zysman nonetheless believes that companies competing on the frontiers of high technology will need considerable help as they battle the Japanese and other foreign competitors. -By John S. DeMott
...solution. The issue of organ transplant distinguishes itself from other pressing medical controversies, like abortion, because it creates a competition that entails the somewhat morbid prospect of the buying and selling of organs, and thus lives, for profit. The "limited capacity" scenario allows for "retrospective review," i.e. hindsight, because it slows down transplant technology. However, this slowdown could actually limit the possibility of resolving the competition by removing the constraints--by developing the technology so that organs are plentiful, and the operation is cheaper. By legislating organ transplants out of its funding, the state would clamp down on the free...
...last-minute campaign pleas matter? In fact, did the entire campaign make any difference? In hindsight, the result seemed almost preordained. The election was dominated, first to last, by four Ps: Prosperity, Peace, Patriotism and Personality. An incumbent running at a time of low inflation, rising incomes and employment, and absence of wrenching foreign crises would have been difficult to defeat no matter what. When, in addition, the incumbent happened to be a master television performer adept at stirring feelings of patriotic pride, matched against an often plodding campaigner deeply wounded by a bitter primary fight in his own party...