Word: survey
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...many drawbacks. He would have scant appeal to voter blocs that are also cool to Ford and Reagan: blacks, organized labor, the Spanish speaking and blue-collar workers. He also seems considerably less attractive to voters in general than to Republican party workers. In a nationwide TIME-Yankelovich survey of 1,048 registered voters in June, 29% said they would be less likely to opt for the Republican ticket if Connally were the vice-presidential candidate; only 19% claimed they would be more inclined to support the G.O.P. if he were aboard; the rest said it would make no difference...
...Street. Center Director James Vorenberg, who oversaw the survey, notes that the law has been enforced even against illegal gun carriers who had no other apparent criminal intention and "seems to have discouraged the casual carrying of firearms by those who do not have permits." This apparently led in turn to a drop in the use of guns in serious assaults. Previously, a steady 25% of those assaults involved guns; after the law went into effect the rate fell to less than 18%. In addition, there was an increased likelihood of prison terms for those who did use guns...
Senator John Glenn's fortunes apparently were the next to rise, especially after a survey by Carter Pollster Pat Caddell showed him and Maine's Muskie to be the most popular choices on one list of 14 possible candidates. Glenn flew to Plains, Ga., where he got along famously with Carter's family (he was eight-year-old Amy's favorite). But his relative inexperience (18 months in the Senate) and seeming malleability weighed against...
Aloft, El Al planes are veritable flying fortresses. Cabin walls have been strengthened to resist bullets and grenade fragments; flight-deck doors are armored and locked. Crews can survey passengers over closed-circuit TV; pilots are trained to flip their planes into violent maneuvers to knock a skyjacker off his feet. Lavatories are periodically checked. To keep potential skyjackers from becoming familiar with routines, however, security arrangements are also periodically changed...
...that business spending has lagged -largely because of the general uncertainty in recent years. Greenspan expects capital expenditures this year to increase about 5% in constant dollars over last year and says that "the 1977 capital investment outlook is exceptionally good." According to the Commerce Department's latest survey of business spending intentions, plant and equipment spending for all of 1976 should rise 7.3% above last year...