Nor, afterward, did anyone talk much about what had happened, least of all Big Howard, who basically decreed the matter off limits, too painful.
Despite these challenges, he said that investigations were conducted and that he was "basically satisfied" that he knew what had happened.
Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta said Monday that the staff sergeant returned to the base after the killings "and basically turned himself in, told individuals what had happened".
Basically everything that needed to happen to close out the plot had happened in that moment.
A lot has happened in the decade since: basically, the music business has been hugely disrupted by the Internet.
"But basically, what has happened is there was a huge gap in quality of life between Moscow and most normal western cities, and we've closed that gap slightly.
For rather than devoting specific rooms to landscape, still life or portraiture — which is basically what has happened anyway — or even wilder categories like American adaptations of Cubism or themes of geographical and spiritual displacement, the curators have divided the show into a series of "question words," which are posted on the walls in individual galleries: Who? What?
"American scholars and policy people are somewhat terrified because basically what has happened there is practically speaking, Google has become the arbiter of these claims," says Solon Barocas, a postdoc researcher at the NYC Lab of Microsoft Research and member of the Society, Ethics, and AI group.
What has happened here is we have basically cemented the future of health care reform into the private sector.
What has happened since then, I think, can basically be described as racial fatigue.
