Word: retrospective
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Writing about the campaign when it was all over, Richard Nixon admitted that there was "one incident?which, in retrospect, might have been avoided or at least better handled." Despite a civil rights record he was proud of, he did not have any comment on the case. Like John Kennedy, Nixon was desperately trying to figure out how to attract northern black voters without alienating southern white ones. And so he decided the best course was to say nothing...
...retrospect, that might have been a mistake...
...unlike Robertson, Joel never followed up a week later by saying, "My zeal, my love of Israel, and my concern for the future safety of your nation led me to make remarks which I can now view in retrospect as inappropriate and insensitive in light of a national grief." Those were Robertson's words in a letter delivered to Sharon's son Omri yesterday evening, Israeli time. The letter, marked for hand delivery yet also posted on Robertson's website, also asked "the forgiveness of the people of Israel" and pleaded that "when I speak, it is always...
Early in the season, the No. 13 Harvard men’s hockey team struggled to maintain its early leads, playing stagnant third periods as fans bit their fingernails to the quick. And in retrospect, that very well might have been better than what’s going on now.Because now, those early leads are harder and harder to come by, and third periods more and more frequently see the Crimson (10-7-2, 7-6-1 ECAC) playing from behind.After Friday’s 1-1 tie with Union (10-8-4, 3-3-2) and Saturday?...
...don’t know what the hell they want to do with their lives. I feel lucky to have a passion and be successful at it.”Johansson initially did apply to New York University’s arts school in 2003, but was rejected. In retrospect, fortune may have fallen in her favor. She admits that the dorms-and-dining-halls lifestyle may not suit her, even as she’s played a college student herself in 2004’s “In Good Company” (in which her character was accepted...