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Instant feedback can be provided by a new campaign device called the Electronic Audio Response meter, or EAR. A computer-age version of the old applause meter, the EAR was developed by market-research agencies to gauge the impact of a new product or strategy, but it can be applied just as well to political campaigns. Members of a prescreened focus group are issued hand- operated dials on which to register their approval or disapproval, on a scale of 1 to 7, of whatever they are viewing on a TV screen. A computer combines the results and displays them instantaneously...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Beaming At The Voters | 2/15/1988 | See Source »

...Women's 1,000-meter speed skating...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The 1988 Winter Olympic Schedule From Start to Finish | 2/11/1988 | See Source »

...Nordic combined, 70-meter ski jump...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The 1988 Winter Olympic Schedule From Start to Finish | 2/11/1988 | See Source »

...Women's 1500-meter speed skating...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The 1988 Winter Olympic Schedule From Start to Finish | 2/11/1988 | See Source »

...Women's 5,000-meter speed skating...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The 1988 Winter Olympic Schedule From Start to Finish | 2/11/1988 | See Source »

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