Word: survey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they aren't a bit like this." As a matter of fact, the poll showed that a great many people who have strong opinions about "the scientific community" today are not really familiar with it. Of the 20 scientists most frequently mentioned by name in responses to the survey, only seven are living. Among them: Astronomer Fred Hoyle, Chemist Linus Pauling and Physicist John Taylor. The rest included such figures from the myth-laden past as Archimedes, Galileo, Marie Curie, Darwin and Einstein...
...just New York's problem, it's all our problem." Echoed the Chicago Daily News: "No thoughtful person takes delight in watching New York writhe. The health of that metropolis has a direct bearing on the nation's health." A recent survey by the Decision Research Corp. of Wellesley, Mass., found that 51% of Americans felt the Federal Government should help New York if "the city is in danger of going bankrupt." If true, that would be generous, but it seems likely that most Kankakeeans are actually concerned a lot less about New York than about Kankakee...
...there are the utterly impoverished nations-countries like India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Chad and Haiti. These constitute what is now being called the "Fourth World": countries with burgeoning populations, few natural resources and an undeveloped industrial base. According to World Bank President Robert McNamara, who will issue a grim survey of the world economy this week, there are some 900 million people in this Fourth World who subsist on incomes of less than $75 a year. "They are the absolute poor," said McNamara, "living in situations so deprived as to be below any rational definition of human decency...
...nearly. As the game has soared in popularity-a survey indicates that 34 million Americans now play tennis compared with 10.6 million only five years ago-so many promoters, manufacturers and other assorted types have jumped into the act that professional tennis is becoming more show business than sport. The signs are unmistakable...
Could it happen? "The probability is high," says Seismologist Robert Wallace, chief of earthquake research for the U.S. Geological Survey at nearby Menlo Park. "The best estimate of the long-range rate of occurrence of great earthquakes along the San Andreas Fault is about one every 100 years, so a significant probability exists of another within the next 30 years." Another specialist, Berkeley's Karl V. Steinbrugge, perhaps the country's leading expert on designing quake-resistant buildings, is even more blunt. Says he: "Thousands of lives snuffed out in 30 seconds is going to blow the roof...