Word: survey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...being used to develop six mini-city halls, one of which is already in operation. Scattered around the city, they will provide recreation facilities, meals for the elderly, library services, medical assistance, job team training and water-and electricity-bill-paying centers at the neighborhood level. When a survey showed bicycle paths to be a top priority, 86 miles of them were added to Wichita's parks...
...will provide TV sets so thin and flat that we will be able to hang them on the wall like engravings. Of far greater and subtler potential are discoveries that do not immediately reach the consumer. The maligned space program, for instance, has produced satellites and observatories that can survey a nation's military potential. Such hardware is the unspoken guarantor of the SALT talks between Russia and the U.S., and perhaps of detente itself. Geologists have begun to tap the geothermal energy of volcanoes in Mexico and the Azores. New offshore oil deposits have been discovered in such...
Speaking at Lowell House, John Gorman, founder of Cambridge Survey Research, a political and business polling firm, said that the new limits on campaign spending will "put an emphasis on name-recognition" but that candidates will have to find a way other than spending money...
...questionnaire in some House dining halls last week and found that over half of the approximately 600 students polled favored some version of a meatless-days plan. But White cautions that the sample is selective and "can easily be dismissed as biased." He plans to do a more scientific survey of student opinion in collaboration with members of a Freshman Seminar taught by William G. Cochran, professor of Statistics...
...college campus a degree of sexual freedom is taken for granted, but the emphasis is on stable relationships. "People are pretty serious about sexual relationships now," reports a Princeton woman student. Survey Researcher Daniel Yankelovich finds that the view of marriage as obsolete peaked on campus in 1971 and has declined...