Word: hindsighted
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...better expertise available to bring to bear on the problem even in those early periods, I think that many of these decisions could have been avoided, would have seemed less plausible even in the light of the expertise at that time and, of course, in terms of hindsight this is a process of really collective error, cumulative error, collective guilt by both parties, a long and tragic and deep involvement, and at each stage the error and the guilt is compounded...
...report by the Board on Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. Investigational transplants are now "appropriate" in man, said the board, but surgical teams with insufficient experience and facilities should not be permitted to attempt them. It thereupon laid down a set of guidelines. But even in hindsight, they were guidelines that had already been observed by Barnard and the two U.S. teams that have transplanted hearts...
...Franklin D. Roosevelt, who feared that "the Jewish issue was a political liability." Above all, Morse blames the State Department, which refused for more than a decade after Hitler's rise to concede that he really was determined to annihilate Europe's Jews. Such an indictment by hindsight seems unduly harsh, particularly since so many Americans-and even so many European Jews-were either ignorant of Hitler's aim or could not believe that anybody would seek to destroy a whole people. But Morse offers considerable documentation for his charge that some key U.S. officials knew...
Lost Teeth. Macmillan draws on his diaries and seldom has to correct by hindsight his first impressions. They are not without humor, as in the episode involving Lord Davies, a Welsh magnate who was Macmillan's companion on a mission to Finland. Macmillan's diary records the event thus: "Lord Davies has left his teeth in the train. "Lord Davies has lost his passport...
...business lagged during the first half of the year, and hindsight bestowed the label of mini-recession. For the first time since 1961, the economy missed its clockwork quarterly advance. During the first three months of the year, the nation's real output of goods and services declined. Statistically, the setback was minuscule (0.06%) and much too brief to qualify as a meaningful interruption in the long expansion. Having picked up momentum again, the economy passed a notable milestone in November: the 81st month of unbroken prosperity, bettering the war-fueled record set between 1939 and 1945. Over...