Word: retrospective
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...know it was a very, very poor joke. I had a poor sense of humor at the time. I was a different person then," Blom says in retrospect. "I really had never paid any attention to register messages [warning against fake e-mail]. When I had the ability to send anonymous mail. I never really thought it was a big deal...
...everyone else in the White House already has. If it turns out that she and her husband underpaid their taxes on Whitewater land deals, she said, they will make up the difference. "We never should have made the investment. But, you know, those are things you look at in retrospect. We didn't do anything wrong. We never intended to do anything wrong...
Sometimes virtues look better in retrospect. Antony died at a moment (30 B.C.) when Romans were already bitterly nostalgic for the austere virtues of the old republic. Antony represented a transition: he could live on bark and roots with his men when retreating out of the Alps before Lepidus (the old Roman virtues); and then he would anticipate the later empire by collapsing into a feckless boozehound (the new style). Anyway, Rome's embrace -- like America's now -- had grown vast and "multicultural." The republic's old purity of spirit had dissolved. Diversity overwhelmed simplicity. Quite apart from multiculturalism...
Even is she wasn't, have you ever seen one of these parades? Stupid, in retrospect, may have been a kind assessment...
...hard to compare this unit with last year's squad (at midseason, the 1992-93 edition had but one loss and a tie), but in retrospect, maybe that team got complacent in its early-season revelry. This year, there is clearly room for Harvard to mature and improve as February and March approach, and the year of experience gained by most of the Crimson's front-line skaters may prove most telling when the NCAA Final Four convenes in St. Paul, Minn...