Word: whether
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...American political campaign against Big Government interference. The provincial radio station in Kansu complained in November: "There are too many inspection groups at company, bureau, municipal and provincial levels." The station objected that the number of slogan banners displayed at factories is often used as the criterion for judging whether the plant is doing well. In addition, "there are too many meetings...
...most important distinctions in reporting growth, inflation or jobless trends is whether they are calculated "year over year" or "fourth quarter to fourth quarter." The difference can be substantial. Say that the economy rises fast during one year but is absolutely flat the next year. Even so, the averages would show a fairly strong year-over-year rise...
...official reckoning of the much less certain probable reserves, which might be retrieved from fields already discovered but not fully explored or developed, is about 37 billion bbl. Potential reserve estimates, like those used for the Chicontepec field, cover all the oil that might be in the field whether or not it is recoverable...
...Whether his shots were dropping for winners or thudding into the net, McEnroe continued to pout his way through the match, projecting the air of a sullen young man seething with resentment at a world arrayed against him. He once demanded of Umpire Mike Blanchard, 71: "Did you see that one? Can you see that far, Mike?" Smirking broadly, Nastase cleverly exploited the situation. At one point he waited for the crowd to stop booing McEnroe, then declared: "He's only...
...Whether Travolta is enough to pull in huge audiences this time around is an open question: next to this film, Grease starts to look like Citizen Kane. He appears fairly often in his Saturday Night Fever bikini briefs, but Moment by Moment's sexual drift is more than a little ambiguous. When Tomlin touches his body, she does so in the clinical manner of a doctor probing for telltale lumps...