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...horrified to see that I was one of them," Bok joked in retrospect in a recent interview. "I tried to stay as far away from [the search] as possible...
...retrospect, of course, 1990 was a great time to be loading up on stocks. Since a bear market ended late that year, the NASDAQ has risen 10-fold and the Dow more than fourfold. Whether the next decade will prove as profitable is an interesting question but one that, frankly, can't be answered. Long-term investors can take comfort in knowing that the overwhelming odds are for stocks to be higher a decade from now. But that doesn't help much in times like these, when all you really want to know is whether the bloodletting is nearly over...
...wasn't a perfect event by any means. In retrospect, it would've been better to keep the scrimmage. The players tried to mix it up a bit in the races, but senior Tammy Shewchuk tripping classmate Kiirsten Suurkask in the race around the ice doesn't compare to some actual action...
...retrospect, we got too far ahead of ourselves. And so now the baseball gods have humbled us on account of our hubris. We dared to tempt fate, believing that the Sox might finally cast off the cursed mantle of 82 years of futility. But alas, our pride was found to be in excess and we were struck down in the sight of our enemies, namely the ever-loathsome front-runners who hail from the Bronx...
...retrospect, you had to see it coming. The Australians had boasted for years that the 2000 Olympics would be "the cleanest Games ever" and that they were going to test athletes on an even more stringent standard than the ones the IOC usually uses...