Word: whether
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...people feel strongly about an issue or a candidate, they should contribute whether they have the time or not," he says...
Kloppenberg says he is optimistic as to whether time restraints would permit him to participate in a political campaign in ways beyond money donations...
Instead, she finds herself trying to keep up with a pumped-up, overpowering new generation of young superstars. I ask her whether she believed that those who suffer through adversity will eventually triumph in the end. For the first time, she pauses before she answers...
...argues that the productiveness of togetherness can be seen, for example, in the way students perform better if their parents are involved in the educational process, and in the correlation between a low crime rate and whether neighbors know each other's names. Using this latter example to make a distinction between moral judgment and practical evaluation, Putnam says, "it's not that it's a moral responsibility to know your neighbor's first name. It's that if nobody knows anybody else, crime goes...
...Perhaps inspired by the puffing in the bar behind us, Putnam applies this research, contending that solitude can be more harmful to your health than smoking. He says, "If you smoke and belong to no groups, it's a close call as to whether it would be better for you to stop smoking or join one group...