Word: whether
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...also states that "black South Africans, as well as observers in this country, are sharply divided on whether withdrawal will do more to overcome apartheid...
...Corporation said in a statement issued last April that it was not certain whether withdrawal would lead to the end of apartheid or to more restrictions. But the Corporation stated that it would support withdrawal if a company refused to state its policies or refused to implement equitable employment practices and supported the South African government more than it benefited the nation's blacks...
Auletta says that New York thought too much with its heart. The nation's highest welfare benefits, a huge public payroll, over-generous union contracts, and high taxes on businesses were all good-hearted policies, but in the long run, they drained the city of its resources. "Whether money is spent, becomes more important than how money is spent." (italics in original) Auletta says the South Bronx renewal project typifies the preoccupation with doing the charitable thing, rather than what makes sense. The federal government has offered New York money to build housing in the desolate South Bronx...
...ridicules Mayor Edward I. Koch's vision of a renaissance in the city. He feels that Koch has been as promiscuous with city funds as his predecessors; and that the mayor has not yet confronted the issues--growing debt and budget, shrinking tax base, et al.--that will determine whether the city lives or dies. On Koch's efforts, Auletta quotes the Wizard of Oz's excuse to Dorothy: "I'm really a very good man, but I'm a very bad wizard...
...Whether a sense of personal and social responsibility should be enforced by law is a legitimate question; I'm not at all certain that it should. But unless Mr. Yates--"individualistic and independent" though he is--is truly alone in the world, he has a duty to himself and to those who care about him not to endanger his own life unnecessarily. He should not climb dangerous mountains alone--legally or otherwise. Kim Hasse Freshman Proctor