Word: whether
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...union, however, agreed to allow B.U. a "maintenance of shop" clause, forcing current union members to remain in the union for the duration of the contract but allowing new employees to choose whether to join. A majority of the university's approximately 800 clerical workers belong to the union...
...this book may leave you a little scared. There are people out there who did find it funny, whose patronage has brought it near the pinnacle of the New York Times Bestseller List. You can't know whether they're the harmless people who make Disney World profitable or the types who giggle as they pull wings off dead flies in their basements...
Reading this book can induce paranoia. You'll sit there, turning pages, wondering why you're not laughing, wondering whether it's something wrong with you and not Steve Martin, wondering whether the editors at Putnam have really lost it this time, hoping that the next two-page piece will be a little better...
...Cruel Shoes's degenerative disease is one that reaches the speech centers of the brain before it finally kills off the victim, and the end of the book wanders off into a cloud of incoherent poetry. Whether it's serious stuff or deliberate satire of high-school literary pretense, only Martin and his confessor know. Here's an example...
...local is seeking modified union shop status under which present clerical workers could choose whether to join, and new workers would have to join District 65. The administration rejected this proposal...