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Powers notes in retrospect that at the time "the news was carrying all that stuff about 18- per-cent inflation every day," adding that he may have committed a strategical error presenting the 10-9-8 before negotiations were slated to begin. "Sometimes if you offer nothing at first and then come back with something, you look incredibly generous," he says. When the Local 26 team forwarded its list of demands at the initial bargaining session April 9, Powers dismissed them as "unrealistic," withdrew his original 10-9-8 offer, and refused to present a counterproposal until the union drastically...
...retrospect, the use of force was admittedly premature, and is being thoroughly investigated by my government. On the other hand, as events in Iran have demonstrated, failure to act can also carry a horrible price...
...retrospect, Tory insiders cite two errors that brought Clark's government to its unexpectedly early demise. Explains one Tory: "We took far too long to get our act together." Elected in May, Clark did not summon Parliament until October, the biggest such delay by a newly elected government in Canadian history. Clark sensibly wanted to give his new ministers time to learn their way around the unfamiliar corridors of power, since the Tories had not been in office since 1963. But by the time Parliament met, the Tories were already plummeting in the polls...
...qualms, Squaw Valley, the last Winter Olympics held in the U.S., proved a rousing success. Except for the cross-country races, all the events were within walking distance of each other, giving the place an intimacy absent in most Olympics. In retrospect, Squaw Valley seems less commercial, truer to Olympic ideals, almost quaint. "It was the last of the small Olympics," says Penny Pitou, a U.S. skier who won two silver medals...
Always an innovator, Rodgers liked to introduce surprising harmonic complexities. But his melodies had an unfailingly natural flow and simplicity that, in retrospect, seemed like inevitability. Many were built on the basic steps of the scale (My Romance, Dancing on the Ceiling) or returned repeatedly to the same note or notes while varying the patterns in between (Isn't It Romantic?, The Blue Room). Behind such simplicity lay a subtle craft...