Heard on CNBC

Mark Mandel thnidu at GMAIL.COM
Wed Dec 23 22:53:10 UTC 2009


On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Michael Sheehan <wordmall at aol.com> wrote:
"In retrospect, we knew that we had to look ahead."

Ow. Does that mean:?

1. We knew that we should have looked ahead,
    but we didn't (look ahead).

2. We should have known that we had to look ahead,
    but we didn't know (that we had to look ahead).

3. We knew that we had to look ahead,
    but we didn't know (that we knew we had to look ahead).

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