Word: whether
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...trouble with. Last week Gore told Time he has not discussed the prospect of her running with either the First Lady or the President--an astounding assertion, given that every other Democratic notable seems to have had such a chat. In an interview, he twice deflected the question of whether he would prefer her to campaign for him or herself in 2000. "She'll be a positive force for Democrats," he said tersely, "whether she runs for the Senate...
...will she or won't she? Maybe it is better to ask whether she should. "She may be the only person in the country," Torricelli says, "who can contribute to the national debate simply by entering a race." A Clinton-Giuliani matchup is tantalizing in part because, at its best, it would engage people in a way politics is seldom capable of doing these days. In 1964, on the night he won the U.S. Senate seat in New York, Bobby Kennedy quoted Tennyson: "Come my friends,/'Tis not too late to seek a better world." That sort of belief...
...soon to tell whether the laws make for smarter drivers. But preliminary accident statistics in some states indicate they may be helping. In 1997, the first full year of graduated licensing in Florida, fatal and injury crashes among 15-to-17-year-olds fell 9%, according to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety...
...cooking show for the rest of us? If your Cuisinart is gathering dust, if you account for some of foodtv.com's 16 million monthly page views yet will never make Crab and Wild-Mushroom Cheesecake with a Green-Onion Coulis, if culinary debate in your house centers on whether to pick up Happy Meals at the drive-through or eat inside, then tune in to Reality Bites...
...Union found that cheese wrapped in deli-counter plastic contained high levels of adipates; some commercial wraps left low but measurable traces too. Toys--at least ones meant for toddlers--can be just as worrisome, since they may spend as much time in babies' mouths as in their hands. Whether any of this causes immediate or even cumulative harm is not known...