Word: retrospective
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...gain the acceptance of clients who don't think of India as an animation center. A.K. Madhavan, Crest's CEO, recalls fruitless sales trips he made to the U.S. in 1999 and 2000. "Had we known how tough it would be to get a breakthrough," Madhavan admits in retrospect, "we might not have kept going." Persistence and a little good fortune helped Madhavan get his big break. While in Texas in 2001, he met with an independent animation producer named Mike Young, who happens to share Madhavan's passion for cricket. The two bonded and Young agreed to watch...
...work of state. (The notion of nursing shameful secrets is also an inferential acknowledgment of his amorous reputation, although he offers no new information about any of the famous "bimbo eruptions.") The case he builds against Starr in My Life is a lawyer's case, careful and powerful. In retrospect, it is clear that there was no substance to the Whitewater allegations and the other White House scandalettes--the travel-office firings, the FBI files, the death of Vince Foster--except, of course, Lewinsky. It seems clear that Starr conducted an unseemly and irresponsible investigation filled with "abuses of power...
Unlike other Presidents--except, perhaps, for Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Jackson--Reagan came to power as the leader of an ideological movement: in his case, a fierce conservatism forged and tempered by decades of disdain from the nation's moderate media and political establishment. In retrospect, the movement provided a necessary corrective for the slowly corroding industrial-age liberalism favored by the Democrats who controlled Congress. Reagan's followers were so eager for success that they were willing to tolerate some flagrant inconsistencies in his governance. His big 1981 tax cut was followed by two years of large, if undramatized...
...retrospect, we should have done more and been more organized around the layoffs this year,” she says. “What form that would have taken isn’t really clear...
...work but I feel like it was worth it to be part of his class. In retrospect though I would’ve taken a lighter class load in another class to compensate for his class,” says Andrew P. Brecher...