Word: survey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kennedy Corporation announced yesterday that it has conducted a private survey of community attitudes about the library and is tabulating the results...
Schmaruk said he has received complaints that the respondents were asked to make personal comments on opponents of the library. Questions about Councilor Saundra Graham and Neighborhood Ten were included in the survey, he said...
...Kennedy Corporation has tried, however, to exploit other fears in the community. Last week, for example, they hired a research group to take a elephone survey in which 500 Cambridge citizens were asked, among other things, if the library were not built on the MBTA site would they rather have 1000 condominiums or 1000 offices there instead? You will have to admit, another helluva choice of alternatives...
...also begun to reach the once hostile nonworking wives of blue-collar men. In a working-class section of Brooklyn, a group of twelve housewives from families earning roughly $12,000 a year meet weekly in a consciousness-raising group to examine their traditional lifestyles. A nationwide survey of 660 women conducted last year by Social Research Inc., an independent market-research company, found a radical shift in the attitudes of blue-collar workers' wives over the past decade. These women no longer automatically accept the notion that they must stay at home and be subservient to their husbands...
However, the commission warned that the results of the survey may be "contaminated" since not all of the people in the class with advance information about the exam were in the advance-information group in the survey...