His mantra should have been: What's past is past, but God help any players guilty of future wrongdoing.
As in life, the good and bad make us who we are and what Red Tails teaches us as Americans, is that even our ugly past of racism is part of what makes us great because, getting past racism by allowing the Tuskegee Airman to fly is what makes us proud.
What is known about past large Himalayan earthquakes, what is uncertain, and where are the gaps in knowledge and in seismicity where large and destructive events could occur in the foreseeable future?
But arguing over who did what in the past is beside the point.
What is more, if past experience is any guide, it is utterly implausible that this country would actually abandon a set of negotiations simply because its objectives were not satisfied.
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"It is not often understood that what happened in Asia in the past year is a reflection of what has happened to the yen, " says Richard Koo of Nomura Research Institute in Tokyo.
What has increased in price in the recent past is what has succeeded.
Even if that is not what Downing Street is up to, the past behaviour of the prime minister's spin doctors will leave many suspecting this is what is going on.
He has proved himself time and time again, but it's not about what he's done in the past it is about what he is doing now.
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What happened in the past is just that, the past.
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What worked in the past is no longer working.
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My basic point is that the past few decades, what is often called globalisation (often by the English, neoliberalism) has led to the largest reduction in poverty in the history of our species.
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Trapped in the Past What emerges is a huge financial shopping mall of investment choices.
What has worked in the past is turned into roadkill in 2011.
But investors are wise to this process and they know that what Apple did in the past is now relevant only if it can use its capabilities to go after another big market where it does not currently offer a world-beating product.
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But the possible outcomes, events and interactions are re-written as the game is played by watching what a player is doing, remembering their past actions and working out how these actions change the larger story and the world it is taking place in.
What is reassuring for the company is that in the past three months, Nokia has managed to gain a couple of percentage points in market share at the expense of Samsung, as has HTC.
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How have they grown in the past and what is their position to grow in relation to their competitors?
To understand what a departure this is from past views of slum life one must go back to the late 19th century's most famous chronicler of the poor sides of town, Jacob Riis.
What's new this past year is that five of the six-member states that make up the Gulf Cooperation Council (Oman being the outlier) are attempting NATO-like security cooperation despite their different agendas and historical antipathies.
So when presented with any image of the world, what we see is what would have been useful to see in the past.
But what is missing in most of the narrative is that over the past few years compounding pharmacies have twice been cast as heroes in the battle to limit health costs.
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What they have shown is much more discipline with the bat than we have seen in the past, and that is precisely what we were looking for when the series started.
But that is rear view mirror stuff and savvy investors keep one eye on the past, but one on what is coming up.
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In bull markets, I have always kept an eye on the number of stocks making new highs and what happened in 2007 and 2008 is typical of what I have observed in the past.
So I believe what you saw in the past few months is reflective of a deep and strong relationship.
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What we have seen over the past fortnight is an amazing success story.
"I think what we've seen in the past is that Tunisia had the effect of emboldening the opposition in Egypt, " he said.
What actually happens is that returns to past investments are either invested again in new projects, in which case someone gets hired by that new project.
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He says what makes this contract different from the past is this: It isn't driven by the demands of workers, but by the demands of the market.
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