Word: whether
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Three weeks after Harvard threatened to sue the city over a new zoning ordinance that limits its ability to develop the former Gulf station site on Mass. Ave., the University still has not decided whether to take legal action...
...issue of spot zoning is not really one of saying 'now you've made it impossible for us to do anything,'" Spiegelman said. "It's more a question of whether this is a fair process...
Throughout the long, 16-month search process to find a successor to Matina Horner, a debate raged over whether the new president should be an experienced administrator or a feminist scholar: Should Radcliffe continue to reduce its role in the lives of women undergraduates, or is it time for a change of direction? Is it, instead, time for Radcliffe to take on the role of advocate for women's issues within the University...
...procedural win. The Justices held that, contrary to previous doctrine, it is employees who must prove that imbalances in the racial makeup of their employer's work force result from practices that have no valid business justification. That ruling provoked a biting dissent from Justice Harry Blackmun: "One wonders whether the majority still believes that race discrimination . . . is a problem in our society, or even remembers that it ever...
...menus of prominent women chefs around the U.S., pure tradition has gone the way of hand-rolled dough. For though most draw upon certain ethnic and regional influences, all feature the new American cooking, with its free association of international dishes and ingredients and its basically French cooking techniques. Whether such food is prepared by men or women, it is most successful when the surprise of novelty is tempered by a sense of familiarity, a feeling that though the dish is recognizably new, it evokes past flavor associations...