That means you can do what you're doing, but you have to change how you're doing it, ... That's retroactive.

Obviously we had to change our planning to accommodate the new dates. We should be in a position to go forward with the events we had planned. This happened within enough time so that people could adjust plans for the new dates.

It is futile to talk too much about the past . . . like trying to make birth control retroactive.

About all we'll be able to do is retroactive studies on humans, in nine or 10 years, looking back at this crop of teen-agers who've been using Ecstasy and assessing if damage has been done to their brains,

Slowness to change usually means fear of the new.

It's now modeled after the way we're doing business. Is it a huge change in the way we run our shops today? Absolutely, but it's a long time coming and it needs to be here.