Word: retrospective
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...retrospect, it seems grossly unfair to convict anyone on any charge unless that charge is fully understood." Young added
...retrospect, the Socialist tidal wave in the legislative elections makes sense. Voters, whether to the Right or Left, believe it is better to have a Socialist representative who, at the very least, will be heeded by a friendly government, than an outcast conservative. What is more, thanks to years of preaching from the Right, the French feel that the legislature should reflect the executive so that the latter can implement its policies as smoothly as possible...
...court to try to read Congress's mind in retrospect. Writing for the majority, Justice William Brennan agreed that "Title VII's prohibition of discriminatory employment practices was intended to be broadly inclusive." Surely, he argued, Congress did not intend to block suits such as this one, where the county's own job survey had concluded that the women's jobs should provide wages equal to 95% of the men's. Countered dissenting Justice William Rehnquist: "The court conveniently and persistently ignores relevant legislative history and instead relies wholly on what it believes Congress should...
...retrospect, it would be easy enough to say that the growing sophistication about women's role in society doomed Angels to a fate it richly deserved. More basic is the fact that no TV show can run indefinitely. After more than 100 weekly variations on the same small idea, even the most oafish viewer manages to lunge toward the knobs and turn to something else. Anything...
...same intensity that characterized the University's perception of national and world events pervaded its reactions to what was happening on campus. Some of the controversies seem particularly parochial and overblown, in retrospect; it is already becoming difficult to understand or even to remember, for example, the intense ire provoked by new restrictions on the placement of posters or the threat of a shuttle-bus driver strike. The developments in the Core Curriculum, difficult as they may have been to achieve, even now seem all but routine; and most people would be hard-pressed to recall the substance of heated...