Word: survey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...authors of the report are Wilford Weeks of the U.S. Army Cold Regions Research Laboratory and William Campbell of the U.S. Geological Survey. They envision "supertugs," perhaps nuclear-powered, hauling 20-mile-long islands of ice from the Antarctic* to parched coastal regions of South America and Australia. They calculate that as much as 60% to 70% of an iceberg would remain unmelted after a slow tow trip lasting as long as six months. Upon reaching port, the iceberg could be chopped up and melted. The estimated cost of iceberg water: only about 1% that of desalinated sea water...
Danny was photography co-chairman in the fall of 1971 and he graduated magna cum laude in Government the following spring. In 1971, he helped found Cambridge Survey Research, Inc. with John Gorman, a fellow member of Dunster House. For the 1972 Presidential campaign, Porter and Gorman teamed up with Pat Caddell and became the most influential issues consultants in the McGovern campaign...
...time of the Miami convention, Porter and Cambridge Survey Research were, in the words of Time Magazine, "the youngest--and just possibly the hottest" election consultants. They advised McGovern on what issues he should make his biggest plays, on what grounds he should appeal to the voters. Danny had seen The Candidate and had gotten a kick out of it. He recognized a little bit of himself in that caricature of modern electoral methods, but he told me politics was not empty when "you know you're working for the best...
...John Dean's devastating appearance, fully 71% believe that the President was involved in either the planning or the cover-up of the Watergate breakin. If Nixon was indeed involved, then he is guilty of criminal acts that would presumably be grounds for impeachment. Yet the same survey showed that only 18% think Nixon "should be compelled to leave office...
...owned by a black. Today he is trapped between an inadequate cash flow and the desire to expand. He is working mostly to pay off the SBA. Beset by similar problems, as well as by undercapitalization and bad management, many other blacks simply close their doors. A recent survey in Chicago showed that 80% of the black-owned firms that were founded in 1972 folded by the end of the year...