On the night of Mrs Clinton's defeat in Iowa, in retrospect the moment when her campaign was holed below the waterline, the account of her impotent fury is, to put it mildly, unsettling.
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BP's mistakes are obvious in retrospect, but when then-CEO John Brown was being celebrated for the turnaround, it was far from obvious which checks and balances he should have kept in place at the expense of growth.
Success always seems as inevitable in retrospect as it is elusive when sought.
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EU's most recent rejection of Turkey's candidature, in 1997, when the current 12 other applicants were accepted, was a serious blunder readily blamed in retrospect on the Greeks.
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The 1940s and 1950s, when the Murrays were at their most successful, seem in retrospect wonderfully innocent.
In retrospect, ASEAN made a big mistake when it rushed to expand its membership to include all the members of geographic South-East Asia, adding Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar.
It is hard to believe in retrospect what happened 40 years ago, when an unprecedented 18 new wineries opened, primarily in Napa, though some of these pioneers found similarly excellent terroir in the parts of Sonoma and Mendocino immediately bordering Napa, before these regions had yet to come into their own.
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In retrospect, several of the women believe this was when the trouble began.
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In retrospect, though, I should have underlined that fact on air when the commentators had their say.
In retrospect, HPs move into services with stable large corporate accounts was timely when the other division sales weakened, and its restructuring in the mid-2000s made it a much more leaner and more focused organization.
During the depths of the 2008 crisis, when it looked as if the bottom might really fall out of the Russian economy, a large number of (in retrospect totally unfeasible) proposals for radical economic liberalization were bandied about but little ever came of them.
So he also took steps like saving the automobile industry that was not popular at the time, but has gained more and more adherence in retrospect as every week passes, because it's been the right thing to do so obviously when we see the numbers coming out of Detroit.
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