Word: whether
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...there are already doubts about whether a 10-year bureaucratic plan can really turn the E.U. economy around. "These strategies are full of beautiful but nebulous words," says Jacques Pelkmans, a senior research fellow at the Center for European Policy Studies (CEPS), a Brussels-based think tank. "We shouldn't expect Chinese growth rates, and we should not raise hopes we cannot meet...
...Europe 2020 strategy is likely to be put through a number of changes before it is formally endorsed later this month. But whatever it ends up saying, it is expected to be roundly heralded by E.U. leaders as their miracle cure. Whether they are ready to swallow the medicine they have prescribed themselves remains to be seen...
...told me that meat producers knew where the meat that killed her 2-year-old son came from and it sat on the shelves two weeks after he died - and the government did not have the power to recall it. Another was when I went to the hearing on whether we should label cloned [genetically modified] meats. I didn't even know there was such as thing as cloned meats. When a representative said, I think it's not in the consumer's interest to give them this kind of information and that it would be too confusing...
While the University sets the start and end dates of the academic calendar, College administrators say they are unsure whether they have the power to rearrange vacation days, such as creating a fall break or extending Thanksgiving break...
...this atmosphere of distrust, it is unclear whether the Kremlin will be able to foster an open culture of innovation, which Berlin at Stanford calls the main ingredient in Silicon Valley's success. Kolesnikov agrees. "What developed around Stanford was an entrepreneurial culture," he says. "I don't know how you create that. I guess it's up to the government to set up some kinds of conditions and leave people alone, stop freaking them out. Maybe something will come...