Word: scales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...deal with the double problem of indecision and hidden prejudice, Gallup has voters mark secret ballots and deposit them in sealed boxes in the last few polls just before election day. The ballot obliges them to make a choice. Equally helpful is the new "intensity question." Using a scale ranging from plus 5 to minus 5, pollsters ask voters to indicate how strongly they feel about candidates and issues. Plus 5 indicates a firm attachment to a candidate; plus 1 suggests that the voter might well swing to the other side. Even in very close contests, pollsters can usually spot...
...relatively concrete proposals. For the workers, he is likely to offer some form of effective participation in the management of the plant, perhaps through strengthened worker-proprietor councils. For the students, he almost certainly will offer a far greater voice in university affairs, plus such reforms as a full-scale modernization of the curriculums; easier entry for children of lower middle-class and working-class parents (presently only about 10% of the university population); an exam system that seems less designed to eliminate large numbers of students. For France's farmers, he will most likely propose some type of commodity...
...that the police, though certainly provoked, had once again cracked plenty of heads with unnecessary roughness. The university administration had displayed its customary exquisite sense of poor timing in suspending Rudd and the S.D.S. leaders during a period of relative calm and then heightening tension by ordering a full-scale clearing of the entire campus...
...none of these people have ever stormed a barricade, none of them have ever formulated large-scale political programs. If you look at some of these people politically, you can imagine what emerges. But I don't care. And I suppose I respect the right of someone to say, "You are a frivolous Western liberal who for all your involvement is never fundamentally going to change this society...
...with Yuichi is like falling in love with cruelty. But Author Mishima's world is rich in nothing if not masochists, male as well as female. For while he is at it. Yuichi gives just as bad a time to his gay boy friends, who range up the scale from waiter to automobile manufacturer...