Word: low
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shifting and uncertain electorate. "Nothing stabilized," says Hart. "There were no overriding issues. People knew more what they didn't want than what they wanted. They didn't put the total record of an individual into perspective." Observes Political Consultant John Deardourff: "When you add a low threshold of interest to a lack of commitment to candidates or parties, the pollsters have a terrible time...
Part of the pollsters' problem was low turnout, which made their samples less reliable than usual. "People don't like to concede that they don't vote and have no interest," says Deardourff...
...cooking and whether to stay and support the Shah or get out. Then everyone says their thanks and farewells and leaves, only to become snarled in a huge traffic jam on their way home. Promptly at 9 the shrill of the traffic gives way to silence and a long low rumble: the Shah's tanks are once again rolling into position...
Today there are only about 630,000 university students in a population of nearly 1 billion. The post-Mao leaders reopened schools and reinstated college entrance exams, but the intellectual caliber of students remains very low. Of the 5.7 million university applicants judged qualified to take the entrance tests last year, only 278,000 were admitted. At the same time, many teachers who were persecuted by the ferocious Red Guards in 1966 are understandably hesitant to cooperate in what may prove to be ephemeral new policies...
More than three years have passed without an American astronaut in space, and the once vigorous U.S. program of unmanned planetary exploration has been at low ebb since the Viking landings on Mars in 1976. Compared with the ambitious Soviets, whose cosmonauts have just spent almost 140 days orbiting the earth, U.S. space officials have had little to crow about. All that is about to change. Last week the U.S. made a dramatic start on what should be a spectacular twelve months in the annals of space exploration...