Word: retrospective
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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However, in retrospect, these changes should have come about much sooner. After all, the only possible economic rationale behind HSTO's monopoly on student telephone usage is that it is a natural monopoly. A natural monopoly, by its very definition, should be able to meet the demands of the market at lower cost than if it were broken up into smaller, competitive firms. With proper regulation, the natural monopoly should pass the benefits of these lower-than-average costs on to the consumer...
...retrospect, despite the convincing wins over Columbia, and later, Yale, the team seemed to be living on borrowed time...
...taken for granted. Both my parents were professionals in the public sector who worked in an integrated environment in which both men and women were at least present in all positions at all different levels. That is not to say that I did not believe sexism existed, but in retrospect it seemed more of an individual attribute than an institutional...
...retrospect, I realize I was a small part of a collective neurosis. On one of my more fortunate nights, I listened to a friend recollect how she was dining alone at a corner seat when a foreign entryway invaded her table and completely ignored her. Another friend would refuse to eat unless someone accompanied him to the dining hall. Then there was the rumor of the girl who would take an extra tray and set it across from her so no one would think she was alone...
...retrospect, perhaps, the State Department should not have been, for China has become increasingly obstreperous in its external relations. A few months ago, it detonated a nuclear device immediately after signing the renewal of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. And in the Spratlys, located in the South China Sea, China has aggressively tried to muscle aside the long-standing territorial claims of other Asian nations...