Word: survey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...survey of 630 business firms released yesterday indicates a decline in the number of jobs available for college graduates...
...survey, conducted by the College Placement Council, shows that this year the firms expect to hire 19 per cent fewer graduates in mathematics and sciences and 12 per cent fewer graduates in the humanities and social sciences than they hired last year...
Robert J. Ginn, associate director of Harvard's Office of Graduate and Career Plans, said yesterday, "I'm surprised at the survey. We have not felt any decrease in hiring. The number of firms coming to interview students is holding steady...
...Since my survey, I have developed a theory to explain why students at this University don't venture too far east of Harvard Square. To begin with, I figure that they're conditioned to respect a busy attitude. In Harvard Square, especially on Saturday afternoons, a slew of strangers hustles around looking gravely purposeful. On the other side of Cambridge, people straggle here and there, no one pushes his neighbor along and the card players are plainly visible through the plate glass windows of the YMCA. Then, I suspect that students here are nervous about the possibility of getting lost...
...often unpractical federal rules and regulations. They flow from a host of federal programs, ranging from environmental protection and unemployment insurance to affirmative action (which requires a college to prove that it is taking steps to eliminate discrimination on the basis of sex or race). Indeed, after a survey of affirmative-action programs at 132 schools, the Carnegie Council on Policy Studies in Higher Education declared that they are "confused, even chaotic," full of contradictory guidelines, and enforced by agencies that are often "feuding with each other." The federal regulations have further threatened the survival of many colleges that...