Word: whether
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Finding an acceptable solution, however, is no simple task, whether or not it is a long-range one. "Ideally we would like to have [space], but do you keep on building? We are confined, you cannot expand forever," Feng says...
...Whether or not NATO manages to heal the rift over short-range nuclear missiles, there has been remarkable progress on balancing Soviet and Western conventional forces -- and the President will now be able to take some credit for it. Balancing, after all, is one of the things George Bush does best...
...possible to be a little bit pregnant, but citizens of San Francisco can now get a little bit married. Last week the city's board of supervisors voted unanimously to adopt a law that officially recognizes the unions of live-in lovers, whether homosexual or heterosexual. Mayor Art Agnos has pledged to sign the bill, which permits couples who have agreed to share basic living expenses to register their "domestic partnerships" at the county clerk's office in a manner similar to filing a marriage license...
...been stripped of his power, although perhaps not his title, and put under house arrest for daring to challenge the paramount authority of Deng. As for Deng, he is believed to be in the capital, personally directing troop movements by phone. Last week's power struggle raised questions of whether he might be turning his back on his own creation and whether modernization would outlast...
Deng clinched his reputation as a reformer with a witty aphorism dismissing the value of ideology: "It doesn't matter whether a cat is black or white as long as it catches mice." Catching mice meant putting food on the table -- meeting the material needs of the people. The color of the cat meant the degree to which the economy relies on private incentive and market forces rather than subsidies and quotas -- Adam Smith's recommended mechanisms rather than Karl Marx...