Word: whether
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...drugs are extending lives, but it is uncertain whether they are adding decades of productive life or merely postponing by a few years the eventual calamity of early death. And many of the lives being lengthened are either dangerous to others or sexually isolated and childless. Says a 27-year- old military officer infected with the virus three years ago: "Meeting / someone to marry is going to be very difficult. And being celibate is not easy for anyone." Still, says Belinda Mason, "every day is a gift...
American executives were too preoccupied last week with spiriting their non- Chinese employees to safety in Hong Kong, Japan or South Korea to make - long-term decisions. Besides, like the Bush Administration, they had trouble finding out what was going on; several were unable to discover whether their Chinese offices and factories were still open and working. The bloodshed and chaos were known to have stopped some operations. Work ceased at Shanghai factories owned partly by Massachusetts-based Foxboro, an electronics company, and aircraft-making McDonnell Douglas. Chemical Bank suspended its efforts to organize a syndicate of U.S. and Japanese...
Simultaneously, however, U.S. executives are putting ideas of new investments on hold until they can see what sort of political and business climate emerges from the present turmoil. The wait may be a long one, and even when it ends, Western involvement will depend on whether the eventual winners are receptive to foreign influence or are isolationist hard-liners. Thermo Electron, a Waltham, Mass., company, is negotiating to build in China a $110 million co-generation plant that would turn out electric power and ferrosilicon metal by reusing the same fuel (coal). But, says chief executive George Hatsopoulos...
Along with the original newscasts, the reconstituted Whittle Communications Educational Network plans to offer two broad categories of new programming. < Classroom Channel will feature educational material chosen by an independent advisory board, which will also determine whether the channel will accept advertising. Educators' Channel will offer instructional services for teachers and school administrators. But the ambitious scheme will still be funded by four 30-second spots during Channel One's daily newscast. The new plan no longer requires a school to offer the program in every classroom...
...chefs. Women are cooks. Or at least that was once the conventional view. No longer. Now, whether in their own restaurants or as employees, women across the U.S. have earned their toques as chefs: the leaders of kitchen staffs, not merely cooks who work at their own stations. To suggest a woman as chef even ten years ago would have prompted laughter. Women, went the old calumny, are not creative enough to be chefs. And anyway, how could they lift those hot 60-qt. stockpots? "Very carefully," says Joan Woodhull, 20, a recent graduate of the Culinary Institute of America...