Word: whether
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...claim on our rally fliers that Stupak will force women into unsafe abortions comes from data collected in the U.S. Before abortion was legalized, 1.2 million illegal abortions occurred every year—and, regardless of whether these abortions were sometimes safe, low-income women would almost certainly not have had access to potentially safer abortions that their higher-income counterparts might have chosen. Is Mr. Lewine really trying to argue that simply because illegal activities in developed countries are relatively safe, we don’t need to worry about making a medical procedure accessible legally? Whether abortions...
...leaders of candymaker Hershey conduct their quiet deliberations as to whether to buy British company Cadbury, one thing is certain: their thoughts will be guided not so much by the financial interests of billionaire investors, hedge funds or even individual shareholders as they will by the fate of 1,800 poor children living on a former farm in rural Pennsylvania...
...Parker's sexuality] was a factor, but not enough of a factor to stop her. We are talking about a candidate who has been in public life for 12 years. Everyone knows her. You had an entire race where no one ever questioned whether she was good at her job." - Jay Aiyer, a chief of staff to former Mayor Lee Brown (New York Times...
Stephanopoulos had asked Summers, who is President Obama's top economic adviser, whether his views were in line with those of some private economists, who predict a likely increase in unemployment over the next couple of months despite the unemployment drop we experienced in November...
Summers basically said that he thinks the debate should not be about whether the economy is still in a recession (it's not), but how fast it is growing: "The question is what the pace of the expansion is going...