Word: retrospective
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...WHINE ABOUT THEIR NEglectful, misunderstanding parents. They are snotty with one another and sullen in the face of authority. Sometimes they are arrogant, sometimes they are wimpish, all the time they are horny. They are, in short, 1960s preppies, tiresome enough at the time and hardly less so in retrospect...
Then, less than 24 hours before the game, five Harvard players--on their way home from a team dinner--were almost killed on Memorial Drive after getting broadsided by another vehicle. In retrospect, we can all take a deep breath and be thankful that the car crash wasn't as bad as it could have been...
...What was remarkable about Eliot, in retrospect, is that he responded directly to so many of the conflicting educational issues of his era. He analyzed them with unusual clarity and tenacious logic. He was responsive to emerging challenges and changing circumstances. During his tenure, several important barriers were broken--not completely, but nonetheless significantly...
...have a mixed track record. In 1992 RCA signed the bearded one-note rockers ZZ Top to a $35 million deal--and the band hasn't had a million-selling record since. Janet Jackson's brother Michael has a $60 million megadeal with Sony that looks too princely in retrospect. His latest CD, HIStory, has sold 6 million copies so far, in contrast to 17 million copies worldwide for his previous CD, Dangerous--a considerable letdown after a $30 million ad campaign that was almost as sweeping and fearsome as Germany's taking of the Rhineland...
...Rabin died at the hands of an Arab terrorist, Israelis would have been furiously hurt, yet they would have understood. But for Jewish blood to be spilled by another Jew brought home to the country the dangers of political disagreements that burn so deep. In retrospect, it seemed a short step from strident criticisms made by mainstream rightist parties to the fanaticism of Amir. For months, Rabin's Labor Party had complained that the opposition Likud, psychological compatriot of the extremists in its dislike of the peace plan, was fomenting an atmosphere of violence. Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu condemned...