Word: retrospective
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Will the historic midterm election of 1994, which gave Republicans control of Congress for the first time in 40 years, be seen in retrospect as the key to the first re-election of a Democratic President in 52 years (since F.D.R.'s last term)? In the months leading up to the '94 election, especially with the collapse of his ambitious health-care reform, Clinton seemed like "dead meat," to use the dainty Beltway terminology. At first the Republican revolution made Clinton's doom seem even more certain. But it hasn't worked out that way. Many have noted the irony...
...retrospect, it seems inevitable that Clinton would sign. And not just to take away from Bob Dole one of the few issues the Republican contender had been counting on to gain traction in the campaign. Political strategists figured a veto might cost the President about five points in the polls, but Clinton could endure that with plenty to spare. A veto, however, would have repudiated the entire moderate, New Democrat stance--champion of family values, balanced budgets, more cops on the streets--that Clinton had been cultivating so assiduously since the rout of the Democrats in the 1994 elections...
...never a good idea not to tell the truth." But Joe didn't listen--the whodunit gimmick was boosting sales--and Parker didn't insist. Instead, Parker published an item by senior editor Jonathan Alter guessing at Anonymous' identity, thus dragging the magazine into Klein's credibility gap. "In retrospect, I shouldn't have published the item. Our interests diverged at that point." Parker has apologized to Alter, who has not yet heard from Klein. "What happened can rub off on other Newsweek columnists who tell the truth," Alter says. "I'm lucky I have a lot of options...
...government can work productively with universities, where the cellular defect in cystinosis was studied, and with industries, where the new drug was manufactured; and finally, that progress in medical science occurs at a pace that may seem slow at the time to desperate parents, but astoundingly rapid in retrospect. Just consider: in the space of a generation, this lethal disease was made survivable with transplants, then curable with drugs...
Although the path of medical research may seem slow, he said, the rate of progress is "astoundingly rapid in retrospect...