Word: whether
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...name his Finance Minister, no one has any clues as to the economic policies of the new Islamic republic. Last week the government expropriated all properties and interests of the Shah's family in Iran, which were estimated to be worth billions before the crisis. Whether or not that marks the first step toward socialism, as it may, Bazargan desperately needs to get his country's paralyzed economy moving again...
...Ambassador to the Philippines, where he skillfully handled delicate negotiations over the extension of U.S. leases on its military bases there. His nomination as Ambassador to Iran was among the first made by the new Carter Administration. Had he been proposed later, there is some question as to whether Sullivan would have been approved by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Liberals on the committee had reservations about his role in Viet Nam and his reputation for favoring authoritarian regimes...
...continuing Israeli army responsibility for both the internal and external security of the West Bank and Gaza. It also endorsed the right of Israelis to settle there. Although only one of several options that will be presented to the Cabinet for approval, the plan raised serious doubts about whether Israel is prepared to give meaningful self-rule to the 1.1 million Palestinians in those territories...
...That decision prompted some staffers, male and female, to write lengthy editorial explications and dissenting opinions. The majority endorsed the paper's editorial, declaring that Playboy "has played a major role in America's degradation of women," but beyond that the arguments grew tortuous: on whether the Crimson would be contributing to such degradation by running Chan's ad, whether refusing the ad was a paternalistic insult to Radcliffe women's ability to choose intelligently and whether the precepts of free speech vs. censorship apply differently to editorial content and paid advertisement...
Baker was not pitching to management, but to his 55 fellow employees, who would decide whether or not to grant his raise. In a secret ballot five days later, they voted overwhelmingly to boost his pay from $5.55 an hour...