Word: hindsighted
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...harder. The prospect of AIDS unchecked gets more attention than the ever growing life expectancy, and gene technology suggests nefarious experiments with life itself as much as dramatic new ways of preventing disease. We have come to distrust science. The public even seems bored with space travel, although in hindsight it may prove to be, along with the computer, the most important achievement of our century...
...generation earlier, in 1966, the Dow Jones first flirted with 1000. It would eventually climb a bit higher, and it would not touch bottom -- 577 -- until eight years later. But with hindsight, 1966 was really the beginning...
...HINDSIGHT, I shouldn't have been surprised that he said he wasn't interested in productive discourse. He was just being honest. Not that honesty seems important to him in general; he, or whoever actually wrote the flier, lied a lot--or else he actually believes the stuff SAS circulated. I don't know which alternative would be sadder...
...sense, these shows are about the past -- a past, moreover, that most viewers personally remember (or, thanks to the media, think they remember). And though none of these eras are portrayed as totally idyllic, they give off a warm, comforting glow. Their problems seem more manageable when viewed in hindsight. We know how everything came...
...hindsight, even the timing seems screamingly obvious. Gorbachev had designated Tuesday, Aug. 20, for the ceremonial signing of a new union treaty with the presidents of the Russian and Kazakh republics; other republics were expected to sign later. The treaty would transfer so many powers -- over taxes, natural resources, even the state security apparatus -- to the republics as to make restoring ironfisted Kremlin control of the whole country impossible. Moreover, a new national Cabinet would have been named by representatives of the republics. Some of the eventual coup leaders, including KGB chairman Vladimir Kryuchkov, Defense Minister Dmitri Yazov and Interior...