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...ratings individually. A 1984 University of Pennsylvania survey estimated that 13.3 million people, or 6.2% of the national TV audience, are regular viewers of the various shows. That nearly equals the membership of the United Methodist, Presbyterian and Episcopal churches combined. A Nielsen survey last year, designed to add cable data to the broadcast ratings, showed that 21% of the nation's TV households tune in to Christian TV for at least six minutes in a week, and 40% for at least six minutes in a month. This adds up to 61 million Americans with at least minimal exposure...
There is little doubt that many Americans are yearning for meaning and moral anchorage, which evangelical religion has ardently and successfully provided. Critics add that people find it easier to acquire simple answers to complex personal and social ills via television than to commit themselves to solving real-life troubles...
...would like to add my support and agreement to the letter of Professor Bell of Feb. 5 concerning the uses and abuses of the so-called "shopping period" at the beginning of each term. Of course students should be permitted to visit a number of classes before making final decisions as to which to take, as we did in my own student days. But we were expected to show up on time and sit through all of any lecture we attended; if we wished to visit a class which met at the same time...
...true percentages (using the vote totals you gave) are, on the first question, 64 percent yes, 34 percent no, and 3 percent no answer (results do not add up to 100 due to rounding). On the second, 59 percent yes, 6 percent no, and 35 percent no answer. Eighty-three people voted on the second question but not the first. A startling 1018 voted only on the first. If you were told by council vice chairman Steven Smith that 38.2 percent voted No on the second question, he was doing his best to mislead...
...essentially began and ended in seconds. NASA officials and the victims' relatives cut themselves off from reporters, and there were no further pictures of the accident to be seen. Apart from chronicling the nation's grief (including a moving memorial service in Houston three days later), the networks could add little but speculation to the story on Tuesday...