Word: retrospective
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dramatic. It might not even be recognizable for a long while; turning points often stand out clearly only in retrospect. But with all those caveats, it looks as if the global financial crisis is passing a rather modest turning point. At least it has stopped getting worse, and it may be contained in Asia rather than spread to other regions of the globe. As one happy result, odds favor the U.S. economy's getting through 1999 with nothing worse than a slowdown in growth--not the recession very recently feared...
...College Harry R. Lewis '68 convinced me that there was really nothing I could do to change his mind about student delegates to that committee. And so I prioritized. Keycard access got moved up a notch on the list. Ad Board reform dropped off. I think, in retrospect, that this may have been a mistake. There is a good argument to be made that more important than delivering results is engaging students in discussion...
...that Johanna is not here." Brilliant, right? Well it's even better when he's singing it. But Dylan was also up to something--"Ain't it just like the night, to play tricks when you're trying to be so quiet." Those words must ring so wickedly in retrospect. Dylan was up to some mischief...
...retrospect, Merrill Lynch was really Charlie Merrill's bully pulpit, the platform from which he could preach the virtues of the stock market and show the country that the small investor could get a fair shake on Wall Street. "Demystification had been the key to [my father's] great success," James Merrill later wrote in his memoir. "No more mumbo-jumbo from Harvard men in paneled rooms; let the stock market's workings henceforth be intelligible even to the small investor." To that end, the firm published an endless stream of reports, magazines, pamphlets--11 million pieces in 1955 alone...
...retrospect, the whole thing looks like an outrageous violation of old-fashioned American free-market principles. But in 1966 virtually no one but Rozelle was thinking of pro sports as a seriously big business. The notion of pro football's "bargaining power" was patently absurd. Having formed his cartel, however, Rozelle managed it in much the same way the Japanese zaibatsu manage their cartels--with a view to market share (read: global domination...