Word: poll
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...After a spot poll of teachers, the High School Teachers Association of New York City had some telling things to report about today's pupils. Of the 1,495 New York City high-school teachers replying, 706 ("the overwhelming preponderance") rated their students' reading ability as poor, 681 said that students have little "realization that rewards or advancement must be earned," and 680 said that students have little "feeling of responsibility." To the association, however, perhaps the most important question was: "Have you found it necessary to lower standards?" The answers: 110 "little," 178 "medium" and 653 "much...
EXECUTIVE PAY is lagging behind corporate profits, says the American Management Association after a poll of 2,500 companies and their officers. In the past five years corporate earnings have jumped 28%, but executive compensation (salary, bonuses, etc.) has increased only...
...weeks later Eisler was released and made his way to East Germany, where he was propaganda boss until he lost favor in 1952. He now heads an East German version of the Gallup poll...
...Crimson sextet ranked third behind Clarkson and St. Lawrence after Tuesday's poll of New England hockey writers. The team moved up from fifth to third place during the past week. Behind Harvard stand Boston College, Yale, Tufts, R.P.I., Princeton, Boston University, Norwich, and Providence, in that order...
...agencies, the 'Gallop Poll' Foundation and the National Opinion Research Center of Chicago University, have recently conducted independent surveys all over the country," Stouffer explained. "Their findings not only correspond in general but were often almost identical...