Word: hindsighted
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...probably be blamed for that," says LewisA. Law, the director of HASCS until he retired twoyears ago. "I probably should have built the staffand infrastructure more before [FAS] budgetproblems. But hindsight, you know...
...course, hindsight is easy. As Bill Carter reveals in The Late Shift (Hyperion; $24.95), his richly reported book on the network battle over Letterman, NBC's blunder was, if not excusable, at least understandable. When the network negotiated a new contract with Leno in 1991, in part to keep him from jumping (ironically) to CBS, it guaranteed him the Tonight slot after Carson left -- not an unreasonable promise to the man who had been capably filling in for Carson for four years. Letterman, who preferred private sulking to office politics, never let top NBC executives know how crucial the Tonight...
...Morris, the make of "A Thin Blue Line" and "A Brief History of Time," as the most "noticeble" explorer of this question. Both of these films document men's lives: one is the story of someone wrongly accused, the other that of the scientific genius, Steven Hawkins. Both employ hindsight to reconstruct events...
...Hindsight has proven Rullman completely correct...
...hindsight view was expressed in an Oct. 6 New York Times editorial calling on Clinton to "extricate U.S. troops from the gathering disaster in Somalia . . . The nature of the mission changed dramatically in June ((when)) the Security Council unwisely made ((Aidid's)) capture and trial an essential part of the mission." But back in June, while warning of a potential quagmire, the Times said, "Threatening General Aidid with arrest seems a minimal way of expressing international condemnation." And "Mr. Clinton dare not flinch . . . If the world's might cannot prevail against a Somali warlord, then what hope is there...