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...poll conducted for TIME by Yankelovich, Skelly and White Inc.,* 36% of those questioned believed that cheating on income taxes is becoming more common. More unsettling, 43% found it "acceptable" to barter goods and services without reporting it on the tax forms, and 26% found it acceptable not to report cash payments as income. Other polls reveal an even greater cynicism. In a survey taken in Oregon, one out of four citizens admitted cheating on taxes. In another study, more than half believed that nearly all Americans would cheat if they felt they could get away with it. Yet another...
...high school with just a single credit in math and science. A different problem exists in higher education, where colleges and universities have been unable to beef up their engineering and electronics faculties fast enough to meet the demand. According to Pat Choate, a senior policy analyst at TRW Inc., the shortage of new engineers amounts to probably 40,000 a year, and there is also a scarcity of computer programmers and systems analysts. Says Choate: "We have got to make sure that the college offerings meet the projected needs of our society...
...promising. About 2,500 of the first 5,000 newsstand copies, priced at 15?, had gone unsold. One of the other problems was that Roy Larsen, TIME'S first circulation manager, who was to play a role second only to Luce's in the development of Time Inc., had hired some of Hadden's debutante friends to help out in circulation. In their enthusiasm the women had managed to mix up many of the mailing wrappers. Total circulation of the first issue, optimistically projected at 25,000, turned out to be less than...
...effect at all on Reagan's general popularity. In fact, he is losing points with the public even as the economy improves. This is one of the surprising findings of the latest national opinion survey conducted for TIME by the research firm of Yankelovich, Skelly and White, Inc...
With a whoop and a holler and a dash of down-home glitter, country music strutted onto cable television last week. The Nashville Network, a joint venture from WSM Inc. of Nashville (owners of the Grand Ole Opry) and Group W Satellite Communications, was beamed into some 7 million homes via 725 cable operators. It was the largest subscriber launch in the history of cable television. The inaugural evening featured five hours of live music by such country stars as Tammy Wynette, Emmylou Harris and Tanya Tucker as they sang at kickoff parties round the country. The Nashville Network, according...