Word: pollstering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...further eroded the public's confidence in the safety of its deposits. "This problem with S and Ls is getting real widespread," said Accountant Bruce Humpherys, a thrift depositor in Pittsburg, Calif. "I'm wondering what's happening to our whole financial structure." The concern showed up dramatically in Pollster Albert Sindlinger's weekly survey of consumer sentiment. The percentage of people voicing confidence in the economy fell in one week from 50.4% to 42%, the steepest drop in the poll's 30-year history. "I wouldn't say consumers are panicked," said Sindlinger, "but they are shocked. They expect...
...Columbia and parts of Maryland and Virginia. Some 1.5 million people live within its confines, sustained by Government jobs, contracts, consultancies and the endless tasks of explaining and influencing the federal behemoth. "They are the most protected single group of people in America today," says the President's pollster, Richard Wirthlin, whose studies show these citizens far beyond the norm in education, income and political involvement. They are shielded from most economic shocks by the deep pockets of the U.S. Treasury; the deficit may be alarming, but the Federal Government is not about to close down. Wattenberg found that during...
...Would you want Reaganism applied here?" asks a pollster...
There are fascinating generational differences at work in the new American mood. One of them, says Pollster Daniel Yankelovich, involves the attitude toward work. In the older generation of Americans, says Yankelovich, "you weren't supposed to enjoy your job. Your reward was supposed to come later. In the '60s, work was pitted against leisure, work was the trap your parents were in." Yuppies expect their work to be rewarding, challenging, creative. "There is no moral virtue today attributed to self-denial," says Yankelovich. "Mondale was the personification of the social ethic of self- denial. He is the 1950s...
Stung by the growing number of his critics, Mitterrand went on national television last week to explain that his foreign policy should be judged by long-range results rather than day-to-day appearances. Though the opposition remained unconvinced, Roland Cayrol, a pollster for Louis Harris voiced his belief that Mitterrand's performance would produce "a positive effect" on public opinion...