Word: survey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...instance, Speiser struts out and the first thing he says is, "O.K., I'm doing a survey. How many people here have ever pissed-in-the-sink?" And virtually everyone in this off-Broadway theater raises his or her hand! These days, at least in this circle, it's right-on to piss-in-the-sink. More likely you'd be ashamed to own up to the up-tightness signaled by a negative reply. The sense of shocked relief and release that the real Lenny's audiences felt as he ventured like a holy fool over still almost inviolable taboos...
...Roosevelt, weakened by a fatal illness, sold out the U.S. at Yalta I by granting the Soviet Union hegemony over Eastern Europe. They are afraid that Nixon, weakened by a perhaps fatal political illness, might do the same at a Yalta II. In fact, a recently released Louis Harris survey showed 52% thinking that Nixon should stay at home until the impeachment question is resolved. Buttressing this feeling of suspicion was the sudden resignation two weeks ago of Paul Nitze, a top member of the American negotiating team on the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks. In a laconic but pointed statement...
Hard-shell defenders of President Nixon have long protested that a biased and vindictive press is obsessed by Watergate and is inflating the story out of all proportion. Most journalists have tended to dismiss these critics as highly partisan, but a recent opinion survey indicates that dissatisfaction among readers and viewers is far more widespread. The California Poll, a statewide survey founded in 1946 by Pollster Mervin D. Field and considered by many researchers to be representative of attitudes nationwide, shows that about half the public think that print and TV journalists pay too much attention to Watergate, and that...
...same sampling, 44% of respondents considered Watergate coverage to be fair and unbiased, down from 55% in a similar poll last October; the percentage of Californians who found the coverage unfair and biased against the President rose from 17% in October to 31% in last month's survey...