Word: whether
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nicaragua's legendary rebel leader of the 1930s, Augusto Sandino. It had inspired the Castroite catch phrase, FATHERLAND OR DEATH. While the people of Managua celebrated, the disciplined Sandinista troops, who will become the country's only effective force for maintaining law-and-order, looked on. Whether Nicaragua's revolution proves to be a moderate one or a reproduction of Castro's coup depends in large measure on the emerging leader of the new provisional government, Sergio Ramirez Mercado...
...knows that a cordial relationship with the U.S. might greatly aid the rebuilding of his country. The real question is whether he has the ability to mediate successfully between radical and conservative views in an untested coalition government whose main bond of unity is opposition to Somoza. "Sergio has all the qualities necessary to be very strong," says an associate. If that judgment is correct, Nicaragua may still be able to avoid the factionalism and violence that have marred so many revolutions...
...opening of coal mines-that it deemed essential to expand domestic fuel output. It then could waive procedural requirements for endless hearings imposed by a maze of environmental, safety and other laws, and set rigid deadlines for state and local authorities to give a yes-or-no answer on whether those projects would be allowed...
...long used placebos to appease patients eager for a drug, even when none is indicated, the practice has lately come under question, most recently in last week's Journal of the American Medical Association. At a time when patients are demanding more candor, many physicians are asking themselves whether they should prescribe deceptively. Other doubts have also been raised. In a study of 60 physicians and 39 nurses at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Drs. James and Jean Goodwin and Albert Vogel found that the majority gave placebos to patients they disliked, considered difficult or suspected...
Mayakovsky was so used to reluctant audiences ... For the Briks, crowded at the table in their small dining room trying to keep their eyes on their teacups while a towering, disheveled poet recited loudly into their faces, the effect would have been overpowering whether they liked it or not... For Brik the poem was a brilliant revolutionary statement. Osip took the notebook that 'The Cloud in Trousers' had been copied into and read the poem over to himself, while Mayakovsky smiled, stirred jam into his tea, and looked at Lili and Elsa with his large brown eyes. Suddenly...