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...would you rather marry from "Three's Company," Mr. Furley or Mr. Roper...
...recent study conducted by Roper Starch Worldwide, a polling organization, Princeton Review's SAT prep students were found to have improved their scores by 127 points, MCAT students by 6.5. These results were not considered by the panel and are currently being contested by Kaplan...
Drive-through windows and 7-Elevens just make things worse. Takeout-food consumption climbed sharply in the 1980s -- up about 13%, according to a Roper poll -- as Americans found themselves with less and less time to prepare meals. That represents a triple whammy on the waistline: 1) takeout food tends to be high in fat, carbohydrates, sodium and calories; 2) it tends to be eaten quickly, which means more of it is consumed; and 3) it tends to get eaten, all of it, no matter how much of it there is. "I've found that people have no idea what...
Some mutual-fund critics want the government to go further and ban altogether the use of derivatives in money-market portfolios and other low- risk funds. "We've seen that derivatives are simply not appropriate for funds that are supposed to be invested conservatively," says Barbara Roper, % director of investor protection for the Consumer Federation of America. "The reason for the bailouts is an acknowledgment on the part of the companies, whether they would say so in so many words, that investing in those types of instruments was not appropriate...
Correcting a previously flawed study, the American Jewish Committee released a new Roper poll showing that 91% of Americans believe the Nazi Holocaust really happened. A 1992 Roper poll set off alarm bells when a confusing question yielded results indicating that 22% doubted that the Nazi extermination of Jews occurred...