Word: whether
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...polling place -there is only one in each county -and wait up to two hours for their ballots, which can be a yard long and contain as many as 800 names. Just to make matters more complicated, the candidates will be listed in alphabetical order, with nothing to indicate whether they support Carter or Kennedy. As a result, each camp is passing out lists of delegates to supporters, so they will know how to mark their ballots...
...banking in the business school at the University of North Carolina, who suffers from periodic bouts of depression. In June he shot himself in the head. Since his release from a hospital two weeks ago, he has been living in Washington with his wife. They have not yet decided whether to return to Duke, where Kreps has been offered...
...leader's fundamental choice is whether to approve the use of force. If he decides to do so, his only vindication is to succeed...
...become unmanageable: if we wished to avoid a showdown with the Soviets, we had to create rapidly a calculus of risks they would be unwilling to confront, rather than let them slide into the temptation to match our gradual moves. Rogers wanted to make the ultimate decision depend on whether the Syrians moved south from the occupied town of Irbid; in my view the crisis
Otherwise moderation may abort the hopeful prospects by raising last-minute doubts as to whether the cost of settlement need be paid. Stopping offensive military actions in Korea in 1951 when cease-fire talks started almost surely prolonged the talks; I would make the same argument about the Viet Nam bombing halt in 1968, though I held a different view at the time...