Word: survey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...survey indicates that the House will probably vote to impeach Nixon by more than a narrow margin. On the other hand, it suggests that the vote may not be spectacular enough to move the Senate to convict the President by the necessary two-thirds majority and thereby remove him from office. In any event, the mood in both chambers of Congress will be greatly influenced by the historic decision now facing the Supreme Court...
...business, women rarely rise above middle management. A FORTUNE survey of 1,220 large American corporations revealed in 1972 that men outnumbered women at the top board-member and officer levels by a staggering 600 to 1. Less than 10% of the full professors on all U.S. campuses are women. "There are spotty examples of emerging women leaders," sums up Heather Booth, a civil rights activist from Illinois, "but it is not clear whether they are the tip of the iceberg...
...polled for Ohio's Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate (now Governor) John Gilligan at a salary of 18? an hour plus expenses and produced an ungainly -and largely unread-2,000-page report. But by 1971 the Harvard senior and two partners had refined their technique and formed Cambridge Survey Research. Their first of many clients: George McGovern, whom C.S.R. projected as the Democratic nominee. Next, C.S.R. plans to offer quarterly economic reports to business executives...
...youngest person on the list is Patrick Caddell '72, who acted as George McGovern's pollster in the 1972 presidential campaign and is currently a partner in Cambridge Survey Research...
...those interviewed said they "definitely agree" or "partly agree" that "newspapers are not careful about getting their facts straight." While half of those questioned said newspapers do a good job in presenting both sides of controversial questions, 48% rated dailies as "poor" or "only fair." A TIME/Yankelovich survey taken in May, just after Nixon released his tape transcripts, found that the public considers the press less fair to the President than Congress and the courts have been. Mervin Field's California Poll took a sampling the week before and found that the number of people who think Watergate coverage excessive...