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...that Johanna is not here." Brilliant, right? Well it's even better when he's singing it. But Dylan was also up to something--"Ain't it just like the night, to play tricks when you're trying to be so quiet." Those words must ring so wickedly in retrospect. Dylan was up to some mischief...
...retrospect, Merrill Lynch was really Charlie Merrill's bully pulpit, the platform from which he could preach the virtues of the stock market and show the country that the small investor could get a fair shake on Wall Street. "Demystification had been the key to [my father's] great success," James Merrill later wrote in his memoir. "No more mumbo-jumbo from Harvard men in paneled rooms; let the stock market's workings henceforth be intelligible even to the small investor." To that end, the firm published an endless stream of reports, magazines, pamphlets--11 million pieces in 1955 alone...
...retrospect, the whole thing looks like an outrageous violation of old-fashioned American free-market principles. But in 1966 virtually no one but Rozelle was thinking of pro sports as a seriously big business. The notion of pro football's "bargaining power" was patently absurd. Having formed his cartel, however, Rozelle managed it in much the same way the Japanese zaibatsu manage their cartels--with a view to market share (read: global domination...
...years, the community devoted the major portion of its federal and state legacy and a good share of local money to providing improvements to keep the slaughtering plant in our community [for Seaboard and its predecessor]," says Sparks. "In retrospect," he says ruefully, "the money could have been better used...
...retrospect, it seems like such a silly stress that I had because it was so well worth it," Mleczko says. "I walked with my class at graduation, and I was around the Boston area, so I was around for a lot of senior activities. Now, I get to come back and prolong the college experience...