Word: survey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trailed his opponent 38%-47%. Once the glow from Kansas City wears off, Ford may drop farther behind, but three out of four voters expect the contest to be down to the wire, and a variety of indicators support their viewpoint. Such are the findings of a nationwide telephone survey of 1,544 registered voters, conducted by the opinion research firm of Yankelovich, Skelly and White, Inc. between...
...natural gas by 49%-38%. They divide almost evenly on whether to trim existing social programs in order to balance the federal budget. The President is on the popular side of the busing issue, with 51 % favoring a constitutional amendment banning the practice and 39% opposed. The survey suggests, however, that candidates need not bend over backward to appease antiabortionists. A constitutional amendment banning abortion is disapproved...
...most notably Boston and Louisville, in recent years most school desegregation in the U.S. "has gone peacefully and smoothly." The commission based its report on four hearings (in Boston, Louisville, Denver and Tampa, Fla.), four open meetings (in Berkeley, Calif., Minneapolis, Stamford, Conn., and Corpus Christi, Texas), a mail survey of 1,300 school districts, and comprehensive analyses of 29 school districts scattered across the nation...
...terms of religion, there is a greater preponderance of Protestants at the Kansas City convention than there was at Madison Square Garden. Says Statistician Warren Mitofsky, who prepared the CBS survey: "Even the Irish Republican delegates are 61% Protestant and only 35% Catholic; the Democrats' Irish are 66% Catholic and 28% Protestant...
...International Court of Justice at The Hague for a quick ruling. He also called for a conference of the heads of state of all Balkan nations. And as a final touch, he sent a Greek oil-exploration vessel, the 1,300-ton Nautilus, out on its own survey of the Aegean...