Word: retrospective
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...retrospect, I was very naive. My dad had said I was going to have problems over the song, but I really didn't think that I would. For me, it was just exciting because all of these stations in New York . . . were just all over the record. I thought the rest of the country would be, too. Then everybody started [sending] all this hate mail. To me it was just a song. I would hear Pete Seeger [discussing] the power of music to frighten people and to change people. Suddenly there I was in the middle...
Perhaps, in retrospect, JV Games should have seen this coming. After all, drinking games and video games may be two of college kids' favorite pastimes, but they are also a source of constant complaints from the students' middle-aged parents. So when the softwaremaker tried to combine the two adolescent activities, many critics felt it had gone...
...have screamed with pain, then started adjusting. Demand would have gone down, and today gas would probably be cheaper" [July 7]. How very clever. But Kinsley had a TIME pulpit in 2001. Why didn't he propose this great idea then? How easy it is to be clever in retrospect - though Kinsley seems less than confident in his own advice, saying gas would "probably" be cheaper. He ends by calling Americans idiots for not paying more for gas in the past. Could Kinsley himself be the idiot? Colin Segal, Sydney...
...many Europeans still see Iraq as the President's defining, and corrosive, legacy. Bush gave a startlingly wistful interview to the British newspaper The Times before embarking on his European trip, which took him to Slovenia, Germany, Italy, France and the United Kingdom. "I think that in retrospect I could have used a different tone [on Iraq], a different rhetoric," he said. By the time he ascended the podium at the London press conference, his mood had shifted. Asked if he had any regrets on Iraq he invoked, yet again, the ultimate arbiter. "History will judge the tactics," he said...
...hockey and men’s basketball games in the same weekend.I never thought that I would have the chance to have a one-on-one interview with a former Duke basketball player.Heck, I never thought I’d be a sportswriter—period.In retrospect, I guess it shouldn’t have come as a total surprise. I was that kid analyzing the box score after a Lakers game, keeping score during an Angels game, and compiling stat sheets for my high school volleyball team.Writing about it came fairly easily—I’d only...