Question: BUT WE DOUBT IT, reads a card beside four sizes of woven metal baskets in Restoration Hardware's Georgetown store.
The Restoration Hardware is in Louisville, Kentucky.

Answer: no

Question: To be sure, George Gilder needs no excuse to write block-that-metaphor prose like [Java] opens doors and shatters Windows.
Gilder doesn't need any excuse to write technical writing.

Answer: it is not possible to tell

Question: I'd been exactly one heartbeat away from agreeing to the deal then and there.
I almost agreed to the deal right then.

Answer:
yes