Word: survey
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Essential to any Middle East peace deal is U.S. support, or lack of support, for Israel and possible American willingness to guarantee a settlement. These questions were explored in an opinion survey completed last week for TIME by Yankelovich, Skelly & White Inc. Some of the results based on a national probability sample of 1,046 adults...
George Otis Smith, head of the U.S. Geological survey during the period of early technological break through in coal liquefaction and shale oil production in the 1920's, congratulated the engineers responsible saying. "You men have proved something more valuable than any other researchers in the federal government. We now know that we have enough cheap oil in our coals to last for ever." But Gifford Pinchot, the conservationist, had enough experience with the power of large companies acting in collusion to warn, "The fuels trust will never permit the shale oil and oil from coals projects to get developed...
...summer of 1973, a 19-man U.S. military team went to Saudi Arabia to survey exactly what would be needed. After both sides agreed on a deal in October, the Pentagon invited bids on the various components that it felt civilian firms could handle. The U.S. Government felt it could more efficiently manage some parts of the $335 million enterprise itself. Thus the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers was given the $62 million job of building modern barracks for the Saudi guard. But the Cadillac Gage Co. was given a civilian contract to build armored cars for Faisal...
...polls support these visceral sentiments. According to a recent Gallup survey. Muskie was the strongest of any Democratic candidate running against Ford. In spite of (or perhaps because of) Muskie's reluctance to run, he almost beat Ford in a recent Gallup poll, losing by less than five percentage points. Within the Democratic Party, too, Muskie has received strong support, especially considering the number of candidates (31 in the latest Gallup poll) with which the non-candidate from Maine has had to compete. Meanwhile, Muskie has retained a low negative rating, proving more acceptable to both Democrats and Independents than...
Exhibit of photographs based on a survey of 1400 women conducted by the French women's magazine Elie, at the Sherman Union of Boston University, through...