Word: retrospective
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...laid bare as a defense of racism, it collapsed. Those people who refused to view the issue as a matter of race, such as Bork, insisted that it was merely a cold legal question of jurisidiction. They say they did not realize how things would turn out, that in retrospect they would have spoken differently...
...retrospect, Americans have often believed that their nation was inevitable. It did not seem so at the start. The 13 colonies that fought the Revolution had formed a loose confederation, a flimsy arrangement, each state in business for itself, guarding its sovereignty. By 1785 it looked as if the arrangement would disintegrate, that the colonies would at best turn into separate national entities connected only by more or less friendly treaties with one another...
...retrospect, all of the Reagan Administration's dirty laundry so far revealed in the various inquiries looking into the Iran-contra shenanigans should have come as little surprise. In fact, in the two weeks before the Hasenfus plane was shot down alone two Administration actions were made public which neatly capture all that is wrong and odious in the arms-for-hostages deal with Iran and the diversion of profits from that sale to the contras. First, there was the case of journalist Nicholas P. Daniloff '56, arrested in Moscow by the Soviet Union on trumped-up espionage charges...
Schumer, a high-intensity newspaper reporter in college, organizes her version of The Harvard Experience in Retrospect into 10 chapters. The first four chronicle the undergraduate years of the author and her friends, the last six reveal the successes, failures and ambivalent musings of six female members of the Class of '74 nearly a decade later. (The six are composites, drawn from interviews with 50 classmates conducted in the early 1980s...
...retrospect, the security breach seems to explain some of the Soviets' recent diplomatic behavior. During last fall's summit in Iceland, U.S. negotiators were disturbed by the Soviets' uncannily well-prepared responses to U.S. points. "We thought at the time that they were remarkably sophisticated in anticipating our positions," says a State Department official. Now, says another, the U.S. realizes that throughout Reykjavik, "we played poker with the Soviets, and they were looking at a mirror over our shoulders." Government sources are equally convinced that the Soviets had inside information last August during the crisis surrounding the Kremlin's arrest...