It is hard not to look back on the mood in 2008 without shaking your head slightly.
But as the President already said, celebrating the 60th anniversary should not only be back to look at your successes, but also look ahead.
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It must have been easier for him, talking to the back of my head, not having to look me in the eye.
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Look, Jake, some of this is not dissimilar to when you go back to the last really deep recession you look at the President's approval ratings for Ronald Reagan during '81 and '82.
Whether it is or not is something that those who survive to look back at history will be able to decide.
But he is still not certain that this is the time to look back at what, by any standard in popular music, has been a remarkable career.
"It's all been really fast, I've not had a chance to sit back and have a look, " he said.
Time had passed behind my back and I had not turned to look.
You might look at whether or not you need to go back to work part time or full time or if you've got other income coming in that's enough to cover your expenses.
He says lots of bankers asked him if he wanted to buy back the business, but that he preferred to look through the windshield, and not the rear-view mirror.
America's faltering steps towards new reactors look sure to be set back, not least because new concerns will mean greater costs.
Having said all that I do not want granite to become the symbol of misplaced priorities when historians look back on these times.
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Of course, stocks could drop back to the May lows but that does not look likely now.
She tries to see positives in her life and look forward, not back.
Of all of the inventions of humans, the computer is going to rank near if not at the top as history unfolds and we look back.
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Obama had already said he wanted to move forward rather than look back and signaled he would not repeal Bush tax cuts on the wealthy but rather let them expire in 2010.
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"If we can re-assure people and clearly see the end in sight, then I think we can look forward to visitors coming back, but it is not an easy task, " said Mr German.
Cole should have levelled soon afterwards when he ran clear and rounded Kirkland but he did not look up before firing goalwards, and failed to see that Gary Caldwell had got back to brilliantly block the ball on the line.
Chigumbura fell to Jones (4-96) just before lunch but thereafter Northants did not look back as Newton, Middlebrook and Barker stacked up the huge total.
After dark, Rivera takes willing participants back into the forest to look for barn owls, which if not seen, are always heard with their distinctive call cutting a haunting sound through the night air.
As last week's column pointed out, no country can look back on its history without shame, and modern Russia does not need to feel perpetually burdened by the crimes of the Soviet Union.
"I look back and shake my head, " says Eva, who asked CNN not to use her last name because she plans to apply for graduate school.
We're going to use this time to look back over the past three years and talk about what has been achieved and what has not.
And I tell you what, back in 2008, I used to say to folks, look, I'm not a perfect man -- you can ask Michelle. (Laughter.) And I tell folks, I'm not -- I won't be a perfect President.
"It's not unusual for a surgeon to have to go back a second time and a third time because these infections -- look at that young lady in Georgia -- can spread in a very determined and rapid and persistent fashion, " Schaffner said.
And are we willing as Democrats not only to reach out to Republicans but to push back in our own party for people who want extremes, and look for the common ground that's going to get us the success that we need not only for our constituents but for our country in this global community, in this global economy?
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