Word: retrospection
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...retrospect, those involved with the IOP say the leadership structure this semester was a success...
Before Rudenstine’s arrival, the University bid for 52 acres in Allston under a different name. The actual deal went through under his tenure, and when word leaked out that the buyer was Harvard, town-gown relations, already tenuous, spiraled downward. Rudenstine, in retrospect, readily admits his mistake...
...morning, the rectangular space of a TF’s mailbox the next. Reading period is a time to take stock, but often only in these backward terms. You learn how little you read for your Core class; you learn how much you enjoyed that chemistry lab, in retrospect; you learn how much peanut brittle one human being can consume on a Thursday afternoon before they burst. (I didn’t say everything you learned was valuable...
...Rudenstine, in retrospect, readily admits his mistake...
...past three years, the banking industry, perhaps overconfident because of its eight-year string of record earnings, gave lots of money to companies such as telecom start-ups that, in retrospect, shouldn't have been funded so richly. If you had a business card and were breathing, you could have got a loan. By June 2000, total borrowing by nonfinancial U.S. companies stood at $4.6 trillion, up 60% from five years before. Total household debt surged to $7 trillion, up nearly 50% in that time period...