Word: survey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dean Rosovsky was the grumpy voice of Harvard past. Excessive permissiveness, he said, has weakened liberal education. General education has lost its "zest" as fewer faculty these days are able to handle the large survey courses. There is too much academic specialization. And students aren't getting enough guidance...
...rest he needs. But the true power of the South is revealed in still another Jordan memo to Carter, written only last week. It points out his probable strength in the electoral college: well over half the required 270 votes could come from the South. A new field survey Jordan has just ordered reinforces the conviction about Carter's overwhelming regional strength. In Tennessee, the poll shows Carter defeating Ford 60% to 32%, and Reagan...
Such performances have turned Enrico Berlinguer into Italy's new political star (and according to one survey, also its most sexy, in the view of Italian women). Yet, like his party, the slight. shy, introspective Berlinguer is riddled with typically European paradoxes. He is a thorough Marxist theoretician who has devoted his life to the party since he was a teenager. Yet this leader of the proletariat is customarily addressed by fellow Sardinians on vacation trips home as "Don Enrico" because of the family's prestige. As a Communist and atheist, Berlinguer ought to be a rigorous enemy...
...Speed involves the escapades of a bunch of Los Angeles ambulance drivers who hustle catastrophe for $42.50 plus 500-a-mile. Tom Mankiewicz's screenplay owes more than it ought to MASH, but it has found a way to get into the underbelly of a city, to survey the twilight territory where tragedy and comedy trip over each other and make an unsightly mess. What might have been a pitch-black comedy is a movie loaded down with cheapjack melodrama and sleazy yocks...
...decision are the sick and the aged, who spend large amounts of money on prescription drugs but are least able to shop actively for them. For consumers in general, the advertising of drug prices could represent a saving of as much as $380 million a year, according to one survey. A revealing statistic: drug prices in states that permit advertising average 5.2% lower than prices in states that do not. One big question that remains is how much advertising there actually will be. Even in states where such advertising has been allowed, professional codes of ethics and other restraints have...