As silly as it now seems in retrospect, many of had this notion that we would be able to watch the virtual office grind away.

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On Nixon, Milton confesses that in retrospect he now questions whether his support was justified.

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But in retrospect we can now see it was the watershed year for customers to begin looking more, and buying more, on-line.

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In retrospect, the meal that heralded the new green cuisine now sprouting up in most major European cities was one I had 20 years ago, at chef Pietro Leemann's Joia, in Milan.

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