Word: whether
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When it came time to make the decision whether or not to go in the fall, I questioned the moral and political repercussions of my going to Beijing...
...some councillors said they worried about the program's high cost. Vice Mayor Alice K. Wolf questioned whether the city needed all five floors of the building. But O'Brien said the space was definitely necessary for the city to maintain quality healthcare...
...attempt to clarify the murky statistics, the Census Bureau is making a major change in family categories when its decennial count begins in April. For the first time, couples living together will have the option to designate themselves "unmarried partners." The bureau has not yet said whether it will get explicit about the precise sexual and emotional relationship that distinguishes "unmarried partners" from another category in the survey, "housemates-roomma tes." (Those who have to ask can perhaps be assumed to be merely roommates...
Another Stephen King blood leaker is loosed upon the world, this one in a record first printing of 1.5 million copies. The ghost of Gutenberg, calling feebly for beer from the gridiron of some Germanic hell, must be wondering whether movable type was really a good idea...
Fearing that racism is involved, Sikh leaders point out that turbaned Sikhs served in the British army in two world wars and now work in many Canadian police forces. After seven months' study, the government has still not decided whether the Mounties will get their turbaned...