Word: allensbach
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...social scientist at the University of Bielefeld. He argues that the crackdown has the misleading effect of "reinterpreting" the attacks as being those of a few criminals on the periphery. Among the statistics experts use to illustrate the depth of the problem is a poll this month by the Allensbach Institute showing that sympathy for those attacking asylum seekers' lodgings has risen sharply, to 16% in western Germany and 15% in the east. Surveys have also shown a third of German youth to be openly antiforeign or inclined in that direction and about a quarter of Germans agreeing with...
...while, the Chancellor's popularity rose with the deft handling of the complex negotiations that brought about merger in October. Unity, said the liberal weekly Die Zeit, "rescued him." It also obscured all other issues. The theme of unification, says Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann, head of the Allensbach polling institute, "was completely constant from the onset of the campaign, dominating it to the exclusion of any other everyday issue." The juggernaut rolled over Lafontaine...
...voters will need to be convinced. A recent poll by the Allensbach Institute, the country's leading opinion-research organization, indicated that only 32% of West Germans were in favor of rewriting the constitution so that troops could be sent to crisis areas like the gulf...
...outpouring of wealth has been accompanied by a remarkable transformation in the work ethic. According to a survey by the Allensbach Institute, modern Germany "has changed from a working society to a leisure society." The average person, it notes, devotes four hours a day to leisure activities, in contrast to about 1 1/2 hours 40 years ago. That comes as no surprise to anyone who has attempted to reach a government official in Bonn after 3 p.m. Much of the country, in fact, seems to operate on a distinctly non-Teutonic manana principle. Freizeit, or leisure time, is sacred...