Word: retrospection
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Israeli: Economy: Retrospect and Prospect Stanley Fischer, MIT, Science Center...
...What is a punk? An inner-city person whose attitudes have been drastically altered by--(the sociology major's voice trails up in self-examining retrospect) a confining social situation...
...Middle East that gripped the world's attention for much of the year. And it was Anwar Sadat who caught the world's imagination by his diplomatic coup de thé?tre. In retrospect, there should not have been too much surprise that it was Sadat, of all the Middle East's leaders, who moved in an unexpected way to get peace negotiations stirring again. Sadat is a far more vigorous and visionary statesman than has been generally perceived. And he has shown in the past that he is capable of surprises. In 1971, which he boldly and perhaps foolishly...
...retrospect, Soares probably governed longer, exactly 500 days, than he had any right to expect. He came to power with only 34% of the vote (which translated into 102 seats in the 263-member assembly). He had intransigent opposition to the left and right and a disastrous economic situation that he had little power to rectify. Soares inherited a quadrupled price of Arab oil, a depressed economy in which half the country's food and most of its machinery and raw materials were imported, an influx of 750,000 refugees from the former African territories and a 30% inflation...
Price, like Nixon in the David Frost interviews last spring, emphasizes the "humanitarian" calculations that entered into the President's decision to embark on the coverup. In retrospect, he says, it becomes easy to think that immediately after the events of June 17, 1972, Nixon should have said "O.K., let's get the truth out, everybody walk the plank." "There wouldn't have been much damage," Price says, "even if John Mitchell were involved. On the other hand, in human terms, I doubt if he could have done that." Price adds that he feels certain that Nixon would have...