Whether these improvements in corporate governance are actually implemented will be clear to all.

It is, after all, fair to question whether donor countries will stick to these commitments and, indeed, whether conditions in partner countries will permit them to.

Later this year, donors will decide whether to renew this facility.

Levinger stated that marriages will fail when the attractions of the partners lessen, the barriers to leave the spouse are weak, and the alternatives outside of the relationship are appealing.

Industry would benefit enormously if energy efficiency standards were demanding and continuously tightened.

The price will fall if the increase resulted from growth in supply, and it will rise if the increase resulted from growth in demand.

The only question is whether the process will be peaceful.

It is not yet clear whether words will be matched with deeds.

Of course, the true test will be whether such demands are reflected in September s parliamentary election.

The biggest question is whether the war will alter Hamas political goals.

But more critical is whether the agreement will make for healthier economies.

Ideally, the subsidies will go for employing workers of all ages.

Whether trade will recover next year is an open question.

If there will be one, then it seems that it was true yesterday that there would be one.

But even Americans are divided equally about whether China will replace the US as a global superpower.

Over the course of this year, Indians will find out if such efforts are serious and whether they will lead to reform or merely to deeper crisis.

Of course, the drag will be much smaller, as tax increases and spending cuts will be much milder.

So the world now plays a waiting game to see whether governments will step up and fill the gap.

It would be unfortunate if the finance ministers merely sit around and beg Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke and European Central Bank head Jean Claude Trichet to rescue them with rate cuts.

The issue now is not whether China will reroute the Brahmaputra, but when.

Only the next days and weeks will tell whether the evacuation proceeds peacefully or not.

It remains to be seen whether the outcome will be decided on the basis of unemployment or state debt.

And how that future is shaped will determine whether or not Mubarak s end marks the beginning of political transformation throughout the Middle East.

People assumed and this was actually a problem people assumed that if they had little dinosaurs, if they had juvenile dinosaurs, they'd be easy to identify.

The only question is whether the country s debt restructuring will be orderly and controlled or chaotic and contagious.

If, on the other hand, it works out a consensus on more economic and possibly even military punishment, the UN s credibility would depend on whether these moves produce Iranian compliance.

Mr. Gzlall (Libyan Arab Jamahiriya) asked whether the new Human Rights Council would employ other tools besides the peer review mechanism and whether that mechanism was to be used in addition to the treaty bodies.

If you're right where the bomb went off, you will be vaporized. And that's I'm just telling you, this is not good.

If the P3 (now often privately, and rather more acerbically, described as FUKUS) were going to take a mile after being given an inch, then no more inches would be offered.

If there is real, verified progress on disarmament, the ability to eliminate the nuclear threat will grow exponentially.

There are reasons to worry whether the needed transitions will, in fact, occur smoothly.

The simplest solution might be to allow each State to decide whether it would apply the relevant article.

The question now is whether governments will give Judge Goldstone s findings the serious attention they deserve, or instead fall back into an overtly political posture.

The fight against climate change will be waged in large part over whether Africa s energy needs are met with fossil fuels or renewable energies.

Only time will tell if all these measures will bring air pollution down to acceptable levels.

It will be a few years yet before we can determine whether these ambitions have borne fruit.

Whether US foreign policy will come to reflect this fact, only the future will tell.

Limits of hyper computation Even these machines, which seemingly represent the limit of automata that we could imagine, run into their own limitations.

For America today, the real question is only whether there will be a short, sharp downturn, or a more prolonged, but shallower, slowdown.

European states can influence whether or not war consumes Sudan in 2011.

Regardless of whether Greece will or should default on its debts or restructure payments under some euphemism the banking system s lack of capital means that credit throughout the eurozone will be under pressure.

The question for Japan is whether or not the country will continue to tumble down the list of the world s great economies, or whether its politicians will return to a path of reform that can revive growth.

In fact, as Carmen Reinhart and I discuss in our recent book on the history of financial crises, This Time is Different, cash strapped governments will often forcibly convert indexed debt to non indexed debt, precisely so that its value might be inflated away.

If Japan s status quo is to change, the country s oddly skewed relationship with the US is one key factor.

Moscow intellectuals debate whether the current economic crisis will bring a new wave of liberalization to Russia.