Word: hindsighted
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...control of the Italian fashion firm Gucci. Victory seemed sweet, but it carried a $7 billion price tag. The timing could not have been worse. The day after the deal was signed, al-Qaeda slammed planes into Manhattan's World Trade Center, crushing the already fragile economy. With hindsight, it's clear that Pinault overpaid for Gucci. The Sept. 10 accord allowed PPR to buy up to 70% of Gucci on the stock market, and obliged it to bid for the rest in 2004 at a price of $101.50 per share. Financial analysts estimate the stock would be trading...
...national security concerns during the Cold War, and the government-initiated probes of communist activities, led leaders at Harvard and other universities to take precautions that many historians, with the benefit of hindsight, call unnecessary...
...sent to cardiac care before being transferred to York Central Hospital, north of Toronto. Mr. D. was finally linked to SARS on March 28, the day before he died. York Central was then shut down, and more than 3,000 staff members, patients and visitors were isolated. "In hindsight," says Dr. Allison McGeer, a Toronto infectious-disease specialist, the transfer of Mr. D. to a previously uncontaminated hospital "was the worst miss of the early days of the investigation...
...look back, and with the clarity of hindsight think its is an overreaction, but its still too uncertain to know,” Ropeik said...
...Instead of talking about tens of thousands of Iraqis and Americans slaughtered in a grisly showdown over Baghdad, we’re focusing on the destruction of artwork. But people seem to have forgotten that the fall of Baghdad could very easily have been a horrific battle. Our perfect hindsight makes it easy to criticize the Coalition for not sprinkling a tank here and there to protect important museums; after all, a counter-attack never materialized. Yet these are not realistic demands, for isolated and charged with murky rules of engagement (is it okay to machine-gun a looter?), these...