Word: retrospect
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...retrospect, items 2 and 3 should be especially gratifying for a people who spend so much time worrying about the quality of their collective character. Two years ago, the President's victory seemed to beckon every junior demagogue from his cave and crevice. Oh, the seething and panting of the NCPAC hit squads, the rough stuff of Jesse Helms. No more. Hardly a "right-wing kook," as they are dangerously dismissed, won national election last week. Neither, for that matter, did a left-wing kook. Wherever else the body politic has wandered lately, it seems now to wish...
...fierce reaction to the plan proposed by then-first year Dean of the College John B. Fox '59 in retrospect seems to be appropriate for campus newspaper parodies. Widely circulated petitions and vocal demonstrations by Quad residents aimed to quash Fox's plan--formally known as the Comprehensive Plan--to change from the system which housed some freshmen in the Quad, and placed more than 100 sophomores affiliated with River Houses in entries in Canaday Hall...
...Lorean needed to lure still more money. About 130 rich investors put $18 million into a tax-shelter partnership formed by the Wall Street securities firm of Oppenheimer & Co. to finance research and development on the new car. One businessman familiar with that deal says that even in retrospect, the investment looks prudent. "There was about $107 million in before the partnership was signed. This would have satisfied anybody...
...center to be finished for a July 4, 1976, opening. In the rush, planners neglected heating, wiring and plumbing. Work began before the cost estimates and architectural plans were finished. A construction contract was signed that invited cost overruns. The crumbling roof was ignored. "It sounds horrible in retrospect but in the rush we never addressed the problem of the roof," Hite says. "We were going to open that thing willy-nilly." Ironically, the great Bicentennial crowds never materialized...
Saying that "in retrospect, the work shouldn't have been done" because of the need for more planning. Bossert is fearful that the College may take on a greater number of Houses next summer, causing more chronic headaches that will similarly linger into the school year...