Word: whether
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Whether out of genuine green-heartedness or just good p.r. instincts, Ford is putting its foot on the environmental accelerator. The world's second largest car company announced Monday it would one-up governmental regulations and voluntarily reduce light-truck and SUV emissions beyond what President Clinton and the EPA require. They'll even eat the $100-per-vehicle cost themselves, allowing soccer moms and rappers everywhere to continue to tower over the road without poisoning the air any more than the rest...
...while the jury is out, Aimee Martin is hearing stories from women like Gray every day. A second-year student at Harvard Business School, Martin fields questions for the admissions office from women applicants. "Women call worrying about the timing of having children, debating about whether to leave a successful career. The work/life issue comes up a lot," says Martin, who shuttles to St. Louis, Mo., on weekends to visit her husband, a surgical resident at a hospital there. "It's been a huge sacrifice to be apart," she says of her own case, "but I do believe...
...within a 15-mile radius of the new home they are purchasing in Milford. "The day-care center is gorgeous; it's one of the nicest I have ever seen," says Johnson, who started his new job in March. "This kind of help made a big difference in deciding whether to move...
...someone comes wooing, and you have to decide whether to uproot, how far can you go in asking for ways to soften the new landing? Right now, the sky may be the limit. "If you are fulfilling a big need in a new location, then go for it and ask for everything you want," recommends Dennis Taylor, senior consultant with Runzheimer International, a travel-management consulting firm in Rochester, Wis. If you don't get it all, you may still get more than you expected...
...states have been given much leeway in making welfare harder to get, the court indicated today that one impermissible way is to create two classes of citizens based on length of residency. In the words of Justice John Paul Stevens, writing for the court: "Citizens of the United States, whether rich or poor, have the right to choose to be citizens of the State wherein they reside.... The States, however, do not have any right to select their citizens.... The Fourteenth Amendment, like the Constitution itself, was, as Justice Cardozo put it, 'framed upon the theory that the peoples...