Word: survey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...watchword is austerity. To make ends meet, agencies have been forced to slash their staffs from an estimated 41,000 five years ago to 36,000 now. Advertising Age, the leading trade publication, found in a recent survey that 77 major agencies now average about four staffers for every $1 million in billings, the lowest ratio ever. In 1970, agencies generally had six employees for every $1 million in billings...
...Truth," "Friendship" or "Progress." Vassar women bridled at a sermon comparing them to a field of lilies: "The sole aim of the lily was to minister to the esthetic nature of the manly oak." In 1895, according to Kendall, the women's college movement was staggered when a survey showed that more than half the graduates remained single. This was of no matter, however, to M. Carey Thomas, the redoubtable lesbian president of Bryn Mawr from 1893 to 1922. Arguing that women should have both marriage and a career, she commented tartly: "Our failures only marry...
Commenting on a survey published recently in The New York Times that listed inflation, unemployment, and moral deterioration as the three leading public concerns, Rand said these are "manifestations of the same evils--altruism and collectivism...
...vast majority of my friends and associates at Harvard are in favor of a calendar change to pre-Christmas exams but none of these people received a questionaire. Had everyone been given a survey, I'm sure that the figure would have been much higher than 60%. And, even if this percentage is correct, it clearly represents a majority and warrants a change in the academic calendar...
...response to another question on the survey, 39 per cent of the students said the time over Christmas vacation helped them understand course material better. Thirty-seven per cent replied the vacation has no effect, and the remaining 24 per cent said the time impeded understanding...