Word: retrospectively
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...remaining time here. The last snowy reading period, the carefree afternoons and my good friends (and my thesis) beckon to me. Someday, perhaps at our 25th reunion, perhaps sooner, we'll look back and laugh. We'll wonder why we worried so much about the future, which in retrospect will seem to have been quite clear. We will reach a point when those frantic high school days will have truly passed from existence, to rear their ugly head no more. We will have proven ourselves and we will be satisfied. After all, we went to Harvard...
...retrospect, there are a number of reasons why Holyfield was able to humble the bully. He has the ability to take a punch, and as a longtime student of Tyson, he knew he could push him around and tire him out. Holyfield trained much harder than Tyson did. And he had far savvier handlers...
...interesting anecdote, I wrote a short account of my experiences as a fact-checker, concluding with the thought that while fact-checking may seem like an exercise in meaninglessness, nothing could be more critical to the production and success of a magazine. With a naivete that stuns me in retrospect, I mailed...
...storytelling, this change makes perfect sense. As logic, it's puzzling. What was held only hours before the election to be full of suspense becomes, in retrospect, inevitable. Campaign developments reported and analyzed breathlessly as they occurred--Clinton's physical stance in the second presidential debate, Dole's decision to concentrate on California during the past few weeks--are dismissed, not long afterward, as irrelevant. And the question never seems to arise: Why have you invested all those months chasing around the country after the candidates and chewing over every twist and turn in the saga...
...retrospect, it would be better to carve out issues to focus on in each debate," Turner says...