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...past decade. In those pioneering days only a handful of programs were available, and game playing was the principal pursuit of the home-computer owner. Today software programs number in the thousands, and game playing is still the main use of home computers. Nonetheless, two recent surveys by the Gallup and Roper organizations show that this pattern is starting to change...
...Gallup found that 51% of the PC owners it surveyed use their machines to play such video games as Frogger, Choplifter and Deadline. But many enthusiasts put their home machines to multiple use, and some of those other applications now run a close second to game playing. Forty-six percent of the home-computer owners interviewed said they use micros to do accounting or make business forecasts; 46% said they utilize them to teach their children spelling and mathematics. A sizable slice of the sampling, 37%, said they balance their checkbooks or household budgets on the machines. Less than...
Though Congress in 1975 legislated a gradual and voluntary changeover in weights and measures, nothing seems harder to do than to get Americans to adopt metric, the system used by all the world except Brunei, Burma, North and South Yemen-and the U.S. In 1977, a Gallup poll found Americans opposed to metric by better than 2 to 1. As part of their continuing struggle to bring the U.S. in line with the rest of humanity, leading proponents of metric, or, more formally, the International System of Units (known by its French initials SI), gathered in Arlington, Va., last week...
Perhaps Jones' catalogue gives a distorted view because he is listening primarily to grousers. But their complaints have the ring of being widely shared. He cites a Gallup poll showing more hostility to the press than at any time since Gallup began asking the question. Sometimes the press responds that no one loves the messenger who brings bad tidings, a complacent defense that concedes no mistakes...
Many Canadians oppose the missile idea. A January Gallup poll showed 52% against cruise testing, and only 37% in favor. In Ottawa, 15,000 demonstrators marched at an anticruise rally in October. Operation Dismantle, one of Canada's largest antinuclear groups, claims to have tripled its membership, to 2,000, in the past year. The 2 million-member Canadian Labor Congress pledged last week to support the anticruise movement, while last December leaders of five major national churches met with Trudeau to express their "deep concern" over the idea of bringing the missiles to Canada. Some of the protests...