Word: whether
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Forget "Another World": the truth is more soap-opery than fiction. And it's incredibly distracting, to boot, because journalists love "inside baseball." The Washington Post and the Boston Globe featured dueling columns on whether hiring Eskew was a good idea. The New York Times printed a top-of-the-fold interview with Squier...
There was always uncertainty behind my defense of Dylan: Was I championing, in a figurative sense, a dead man? Since I had never heard him live in concert, it was difficult for me to determine whether he was all hype hiding behind a veneer of legend and recording technology. The question was never whether his heart was healthily thumping away--rather, pragmatically, if I saw him in concert, was he going to suck? And therein lies the peculiarity of affection: it fears the possibility of change. For our purposes, that would result if the familiar image of good Dylan will...
...Bill Clinton, for one, is shocked and appalled that those bad men would try to do such a thing. After all, he?s not keeping the surplus to pay off his Paula Jones legal bills; he?s just reinvesting it. "The Senate is about to make a pivotal choice: whether to move forward with a sound strategy that led us to this point, or to return to the reckless policies that threw our nation into stagnation and economic decline," boomed the president on Thursday. That last part, of course, is a canard. The last big tax cut was the Reagan...
...comes down to whether consumers are willing to pay for increasingly costly health care or subject themselves to a form of medical rationing. That's the core issue to emerge from two surveys, released Wednesday, centered on patient and doctor experiences with HMOs. The doctor data, compiled by the Kaiser Family Foundation together with the Harvard School of Public Health, found a high degree of physician dissatisfaction with a system that continually questions their professional judgment. Among the results: 79 percent of doctors reported trouble getting approval for a drug they wanted to prescribe; 69 percent had difficulty getting approval...
...average out over the long term," says TIME science contributor Fred Golden. TIME science correspondent Dick Thompson concurs. "You can?t link a specific event ? this heat wave ? to climate change," he says. And although many experts believe the Earth is heating up, they cannot agree whether it is caused by human activity or the natural cycles that through the centuries have brought both ice ages and parched droughts...