Word: survey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Survey...
...confined by responsibilities to a professionally over-committed young husband ('55, '58) and our first-born. Having temporarily relinquished my prospects for continuing formal education, I was thrilled to imagine that despite biological destiny I might have my family cake and conquer it, too. I enrolled in "A Survey of Spanish-American Literature" under Professor Juan Marichal, now chairman of the Department of Romance languages, and have been translating Pablo Neruda slowly ever since...
That pessimistic picture was drawn from the latest TIME Soundings, a quarterly survey of the mood, temper and outlook of Americans. Soundings consists of a series of political and social indicators that were developed for TIME by Yankelovich, Skelly & White, Inc., the New York-based public opinion research firm. The most recent results were based on telephone interviews conducted in late January, tabulated and analyzed in February, with a representative sample of 1,046 Americans of voting age. Results for each individual survey have an error factor of plus or minus 3%; in estimating trends from one quarter to another...
...number of Americans in immediate economic distress, as opposed to those merely worried about their economic future, has predictably continued to rise, but the rate of increase has slowed. The winter survey found that 35% of those interviewed were in serious economic trouble, up from 23% last spring and 33% last fall...
Throughout the U.S., unemployment-or the fear of it-has become a gnawing preoccupation. The Gallup poll reports that 15% of the nation's working people fear that they will lose their jobs in the next year. The Harris survey shows that more than half the public has already been hurt by work cutbacks; of those questioned, 30% said that they or a family member had been laid off, 9% had lost overtime and 13% had had their working hours reduced. Police blame unemployment for a recent jump in robberies and purse snatchings; many of the culprits who have...