Word: roper
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...turns out that the act of having kids triggers many to go green. An April 2008 Roper poll found that people identified having a child as their primary motivation for protecting the environment; 91% said the most important reason to recycle is the impact it will have on their children's future. In fact, new parents are the leading edge of environmental awareness, says Alan Greene, a pediatrician at Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford and author of Raising Baby Green. "I've seen a dramatic increase in parents taking environmental responsibility for their children in the past 15 years...
...It’s not that young Americans don’t take interest in current issues or hold opinions; on the contrary, according to the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, youth tend to be both less satisfied with the status quo and more optimistic about the future than adults. When we do vote, we tend to value individual freedoms over institutional stability (think, for example, of the debate over music censorship). Yet when it comes to political participation, whether it’s at the polls or through protests, we are shockingly passive. Gone is the daring sense...
Hairless breeds never win the Westminster Dog Show. And they no longer win the dog-and-pony show that is a presidential election, no matter what surveys say about Giuliani as the Republican front runner. Forget the Roper polls. I trust the barber poles...
This TIME Style & Design poll of 410 affluent Indian respondents was conducted through personal interviews in June 2007 by GfK Roper at 40 different locations in Mumbai (formerly Bombay), Delhi and Bangalore in affluent neighborhoods and at upscale shopping malls, boutiques, hotels, car dealerships and fitness clubs. Respondents made at least 40,000 rupees a month. The margin of error...
This TIME Style & Design poll of 400 affluent Russian respondents was conducted through personal interviews in June 2007 by GfK Roper at 31 different locations in Moscow and St. Petersburg, including upscale shopping malls, boutiques, hotels, car dealerships and fitness clubs. Respondents made at least 50,000 rubles a month. The margin of error...