Word: hindsighted
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...hindsight, the 2004 women’s soccer season might be best labeled as a formal passing of the guard. Not only did Harvard coach Tim Wheaton turn the program over to a new young coach, Stephanie Erickson, at its end, but a dynamic group of seniors put the program back on top, leading the Crimson (8-5-2, 4-3 Ivy) to an undefeated home record (5-0-1) and its first NCAA tournament birth since...
...days earlier, it would "have given us a day head-start. That would have allowed us to build a good or better or more comprehensive intelligence picture, and combine that with last-minute reporting which may have led to a more successful operational outcome. With the benefit of hindsight, if we had our time again we would say 'You (the US commanders) are sending your people in broad daylight into a valley surrounded by cave systems and networks that are probably still in use, and you are going to do that without having eyes on the insurgents. It's madness...
...Afterparty reflected all of our concerns. The vote ended up 19-18 in favor of funding the event. This one failure does not spell doom for UC events as a whole. With a schedule change to the week before Springfest, future Afterparties could fulfill their promise. But hindsight is 20/20. And with its benefit, we would have preferred that the UC pocketed the money it spent on the Afterparty for bigger (or smaller) future plans...
...theater, it might seem surprising that Lithgow offers eloquent arguments against the concept of a theater concentration at the College. “I think that if there had been a concentration, I would have been tempted to do it, and I think I would have regretted it in hindsight,” he says, carefully choosing his words. “[Theater] was the most fun because it was so untutored, so unscrutinized—there was this feeling that we could do anything...
...many celebrated past mergers have been colossal failures. Warns Sigurd Reinton, a partner in the management-consulting firm of McKinsey & Co.: "The benefits of mergers and acquisitions are often overrated. You cannot generalize and say all acquisitions are bad, but there is a sufficient number that, at least in hindsight, should not have taken place to suggest a need to tread carefully...