Word: hindsight
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...reasoning behind that move?which in hindsight seems questionable ?was that since most Americans were to be vaccinated against swine flu, those at highest risk might as well be immunized against A/Victoria at the same time. All this posed a dilemma for federal decision makers: Should they risk giving the double-mix vaccine again, despite the hazard of Guillain-Barré syndrome, to guard the most vulnerable against the resurgent A/Victoria strain...
...AUTOBIOGRAPHY Why Not the Best? President-elect Jimmy Carter suggested that 1976 could be viewed as a turning point, a watershed in Americar history. Making generalizations about American politics is a risky thing, even with the benefit of hindsight. Nonetheless, three events of the past month--the death of Michigan Senator Philip Hart, the election of Senator Robert Byrd (D-W. Va.) as Senate Majority Leader, and the announcements of Carter's cabinet nominations, especially those of Griffin Bell for Attorney General and Harold Brown for Secretary of Defense--suggest some of the critical choices confronting congressional leaders and some...
...corollary was the myth of feminine sensibility. This, like anatomy, was declared to be destiny. Mary Cassatt's" Young Woman in Black (1883) is the kind of painting that used to be cited, with 20/20 hindsight, as the product of an "essentially feminine" sensibility, a painting as full of style and chic as an egg is of albumin. But is the kind of sensibility in its design-the springy black silhouette of blouse and tunic relieved by one dash of white, the brisk notation of the face smeared and flecked by the black lace veil, the emphatic circumflex...
Ever since he became President, Ford has erred on the side of caution -or so it appears in hindsight. Of course, he deserves much credit for bringing down inflation. But after the economic summits that he convened in the autumn of 1974, he ignored all the warnings of recession and proposed an unwisely tight fiscal policy, with income tax surcharges for individuals and companies. By December the economy had plunged, and in January 1975 Ford had to admit his error by proposing a tax cut of $16 billion. In fact, that was too modest. Congress increased it to more than...
...Reagan piped up: "Yeah, but when's he going to say no to that budget?" A reference to Ford's widespread popularity around the world brought another Reagan gibe. As the large states of New Jersey and Ohio sang out their tallies, Reagan indulged in some arguable hindsight: if only he had gone into a few of the larger Northern states, he said, he could have won them. When New York's Dick Rosenbaum, his bald, sunburned head rising above the crowd, bellowed out with obvious pleasure a huge majority for the President, Reagan tried to perk...