Word: retrospective
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...retrospect, maybe I should've run," she told well-wishers yesterday at a New York Post reception. The Post had endorsed Kirkpatrick for vice president. calling her "an extraordinary combination of political popularity and intellectual substance...
...retrospect, it is easy to see why Henry James at first viewed the younger Edith Wharton with some alarm. He might have invented her, except that she was a Jamesian heroine even richer and brighter than his imagination had dared. And her novels made more money than his. The record of their growing friendship is only one of many happy adventures in this brimming, brilliant collection...
Admittedly his earlier losses had been expected or deemed possible by Dukakis -- just as his losing votes in the legislature had been when he first went there. But those losses he meant to use on the way to larger victories. In retrospect, he brought the Redemptive Loss within that same scheme. It would make him a better Governor the next time -- just you wait and see. His mother would take up the theme: All had happened for the best. Dukakis even came to take a kind of perverse credit for the loss, emphasizing that "I should never have lost...
...retrospect, the most frightening part of the tragedy is its seeming inevitability. Rogers may have made the only decision he could, given what he knew and when he knew it. The U.S. rules of engagement are not unreasonable, | considering the situation in the Persian Gulf, and the Aegis system apparently worked as it was supposed to. The tragedy seems to have resulted from a collision of random events (an airliner taking off at the moment a naval battle was beginning, for example) with inflexible technology in a pattern that could conceivably happen again. The Navy immediately began searching for ways...
...retrospect, they say, it is easy to see reasons why they were placed together, and why it was likely that they would get on well. Elby, a chemistry and physics concentrator from Westfield, NJ., shares a keen interest in science and mathematics with Martin, a physics and music concentrator from Washington, DC. Stone, a government concentrator from Pittsburgh, PA., shares an interest in politics with Salovaara, a literature concentrator who joined his roommate in his work on the Harvard Political Review...