Word: roper
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reaction, hundreds of famous and distinguished Britons have petitioned the church to keep the 1662 book in the "mainstream of worship." Among signers: former Prime Minister Lord Home, Foreign Secretary Lord Carrington, Historian Lord Dacre (Hugh Trevor-Roper), Conductor Sir Adrian Boult, Sculptor Henry Moore, Novelist William Golding, Lord Olivier and Glenda Jackson. Actor Paul Scofield says Britons feel "dismay" over the likely loss of so much "that is deeply poetic and influential in our language...
...wind from the Persian Gulf or Moscow could turn the tiny tide one way or another. These "external sources of conflict," to use the language of the experts, can dramatically bring "coherence" to a confused domestic political picture by scaring people to one side or the other. Burns Roper calls this year's race closer than the eyelash contest of Kennedy-Nixon in 1960, and his research of the data from 50 years shows that every international scare benefited the incumbent President. Yet the dynamics of this election are so bizarre that none of the experts will rule...
...four most recent surveys were those of Yankelovich for TIME (15% for Anderson), Roper (13%), Los Angeles Times (18%), and ABC News-Harris...
...while the press corps was playing "getting used to Reagan" and Carter was falling to the lowest rating in Gallup's 40 years of measuring presidential popularity, FORTUNE published "Why Carter Will Probably Win," by Everett Carll Ladd of the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research. Ladd (who hasn't changed his mind since, even after Billy Carter) concludes from his samplings that 1980 is shaping up as a "competence election," a question on which he says "Reagan's weakness with the electorate matches Carter's." Having failed to persuade the great middle of the electorate...