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...complement Forum's individual expressions, Soundings, a poll jointly planned by TIME and the opinion-research firm of Yankelovich, Skelly & White, Inc., will appear roughly four times a year. Its major innovation is a carefully designed set of indicators of politics and social trends. These are based on responses over a period of time to a set of related questions. One such indicator, for example, is economic stress, and it is clearly rising. Others are conservatism and social resentment; more will emerge in the future. The survey deals with matters that can never be as concretely measured as economic...
These findings were drawn from a study of public attitudes conducted for TIME in mid-July by Yankelovich, Skelly & White, Inc., the New York-based public-opinion research firm. For comparison purposes, a similar study had been made in late April and early May. The report is the first of a series called TIME Soundings, which will monitor a number of political indicators as the country approaches the 1976 presidential election. (The methods and definitions used are spelled out in the box on the following two pages.) The report also provides a sharp profile of the America that Gerald Ford...
...that trouble the U.S. today are complex and interrelated in unexpected ways. To plumb and analyze them, TIME Soundings will report quarterly on the mood, temper and outlook of Americans. Soundings consists of a series of political and social indicators that were developed for TIME by Yankelovich, Skelly & White, Inc. The report differs from more traditional opinion polls in two respects: 1) Soundings not only measures shifts in public opinion but also tries to monitor the underlying trends that produce sea changes in public attitudes, and 2) the indicators are based on an amalgam of responses to hundreds of different...
...writer, a retired industrialist (he was head of Norton Simon Inc.), is an art collector and philanthropist...
...cars," but added that "generally speaking, there is a lack of confidence on the part of the consumers in this country, and we believe that it has affected car sales in 1974. We would hope this confidence could be rebuilt." Chairman Henry Walker Jr., of the Honolulu-based Amfac, Inc., says that, "with Nixon safely out of the way," his company plans to move ahead on delayed plans to expand food-processing plants in Alaska and on the West Coast...