Word: whether
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thrill now is a place like Chicago or Toledo or Buffalo, where you notice people rolling out and going to work in the morning," says McGuane. "After 50 years of living, it occurs to me that the most significant thing that people do is go to work, whether it is to go to work on their novel or the assembly plant or fixing somebody's teeth...
There are, however, important and auspicious differences between 1848 and 1989. In 1848 multinational empires dominated Europe. The revolutionaries wanted to dismember them, but could not agree on where the new boundaries should be drawn. Such questions as how far Germany should extend and whether there should be an independent Poland provoked heated debate and considerable bloodshed well into the 20th century. Now they have been settled. At issue this year is not the location of Europe's borders but simply whether Communist or democratic governments should exercise power within them...
...Whether or not man and machine adapt, the public should be ready to blow a farewell kiss to the 25 cents stamp. Costs are rising 112 times as fast as inflation, and the Postal Service is expected to lose $1.6 billion this fiscal year. The 30 cents stamp may be here...
...Saatchi & Saatchi wandered afield, its management seemed to become increasingly inept. The company's debt swelled to $250 million while costs mounted unchecked. At the consulting firms, key managers, skeptical about whether their operations could thrive in the Saatchi confederacy, began to quit...
From the moment Sakharov returned from Gorky, he was often at odds with the man who gave him his freedom, whether pressing at home for the immediate release of all political prisoners or warning audiences abroad that Gorbachev was amassing too much power. He clashed with the Soviet leader on the opening day of the Congress last May, saying he would support him as President only after an open debate, and was dismissed from the podium on the final day when he tried to outline his own political program...