Word: retrospective
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...priced, full-service carrier, was already battered at its hub by competition from Texas Air subsidiary Continental and from United. Burr's Denver foray violated one of the initial ingredients in People's formula for success: offer no-frills travel in areas away from heavy competition. Says Burr in retrospect: "When we bought Frontier, our competitors decided Denver was going to be a battleground. It still...
...twelve-member commission found, NASA had become a bureaucracy that had lost its way. Before the first shuttle was launched, the agency had known of the fatal seal problem but had buried it under a blizzard of paper while permitting schedule-conscious managers to keep the orbiters flying. In retrospect, it began to seem, the Challenger tragedy was all but inevitable...
Several other examples of global unilateralism look, in retrospect, like dress rehearsals for this latest, most spectacular and most controversial military clash in the Reagan era. In 1981 the U.S. Navy made quick work of Gaddafi's air force over the Gulf of Sidra, and late last month the U.S. bloodied those waters again. There were also the 1983 invasion of Grenada and last year's interception of an Egyptian airliner with the Achille Lauro hijackers aboard...
...perhaps that's a good thing--a 5-4, extra-inning victory can be mighty pleasant in retrospect...
...lousy check and there was no penalty," Cleary said. "In retrospect, it's lousy to put him out, especially on a hit like that...