Word: whether
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Before the plug is pulled on this dialysis patient, be sure someone is around to answer the question of whether society can afford not to have me around just because my kidneys don't work...
...sure. The ex-encyclopedia salesman bought Colonel Sanders' Kentucky Fried operation and parlayed it into an empire that he sold for an estimated $35 million profit. But even with all his money and with the help of his new wife, TV Personality Phyllis George, it was unclear whether he could sell himself as the nominee for Governor to the Bourbons, thoroughbreds and mountain boys of Kentucky...
...rising real costs of energy. Second, to a growing degree we have to replace oil by other primary resources of energy, especially coal and nu clear energy. Foreseeably, we will within the next one or two decades get into a worldwide debate about the irrevocable consequences of burning hydrocarbons - whether oil or coal or lignite or wood or natural gas - because the carbon dioxide fallout, as science more or less equivocally tells us, results in a heating up of the globe as a whole. This leads to the third point, namely the necessity to put up rather large sums...
...international precautions or safeguards against proliferation of weapons-grade material, and 2) processing security, whether it is reactors, reprocessing, fast-breeders or the stowaway business for the remnants...
...prompt a similar ambush. What business has an American Wasp writing about the European, chiefly Jewish, victims of the Holocaust? If taken seriously, such questions are dangerous. Areas of the imagination can be fenced off for certain groups alone only at everyone's peril. The question is not whether Styron has a right to use alien experiences but whether his novel proves that he knows what he is writing about...