Word: retrospective
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...artillery pieces, and over 1,000 combat aircraft. Thus, in view of the geographical realities of the area, and the sworn enmity and strength of the Arab nations, it is more than a little bit strange that the UN and the concerned nations did not forsee what seems, in retrospect, to be the almost inevitable occupation. Israel needs to monitor and defend the Jordan River area, it has an ultimate right to do so, and neither the UN nor any individual nations should ask or expect the Israeli government to ever rescind this right...
Arafat all but agreed to give Hussein the go-ahead to negotiate on behalf of the West Bank's Palestinians, but at the last minute failed to obtain the backing of his own organization and pulled out. In retrospect, some analysts believe that Arafat would have been no worse off had he given Hussein the mandate, even if it might have split his movement. Says former Austrian Chancellor Bruno Kreisky, who has long maintained close ties to Arafat: "Because he was so intent on maintaining the unity of the P.L.O., he never stated clearly enough what his real aims...
...John Anderson "National Unity" ticket in open opposition to the Carter-Mondale slate? To all of those charges I plead guilty and offer no apologies. In both the Kennedy and the Anderson campaigns I felt that I was supporting the best available candidate for the office of President. In retrospect, I am more convinced than ever that if the campaign of either of those two men had succeeded the country and humanity would be in far better shape today...
...President of the U.S. except Lincoln (in retrospect, now to be considered another impeachable character) has ever been more savaged by the press than Nixon. For one solid year the press has been beating on him mercilessly. And he has shown that he can take it and take it and take it, with cool and courage. But few journalists-none on TIME-have had even the sportsmanship, no less the journalistic objectivity, to report that whatever Nixon is or is not, he is one helluva gutsy fighter...
...decided that they wish to lodge a formal complaint about six or eight have wished my active help in neutralizing the evaluator situations in which they find themselves situations in which they find themselves: and the rest have wished counsel in handling a situation themselves or to discuss in retrospect ways they might have handled a situation now past. In the past three years only two undergraduates have pursued formal complaints to the end of the Faculty's process. The Dean of the Faculty took action in one: on action was taken in the other because of insufficient evidence that...