Word: survey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...survey of House committee chairmen yesterday indicates about 125 candidates campus-wide are running for 90 assembly seats. About 75 candidates have adopted the platform of the Coalition for a Democratic University (CDU), the assembly's first political party...
Harris' Perrier Survey of Fitness in America (done for the French mineral-water firm that co-sponsors the New York Marathon and other races) is based on personal interviews with 1,510 people and a telephone sample of 180 runners. The study finds that 41% of Americans get no exercise at all, 44% are somewhat active, and only 15% are seriously involved in regular exercise. This latter group of fitness freaks tends to favor calisthenics, running and basketball, while those who are less committed to physical exertion favor bowling, walking and swimming. On the basis of the poll, Harris...
Tributsch acknowledges that his theory is based largely on old or inexact observations. The ancient Greeks and Romans regarded fogs, strange clouds and eerie lights as precursors of earthquakes. These atmospheric phenomena, suggests Tributsch, may have been of an electrical nature. Indeed, a 1976 U.S. Geological Survey conference on animal behavior prior to earthquakes concluded that the body of such casual evidence is too large to ignore. In addition, a number of researchers have found that positive ions can have marked physiological effects on people and animals by stimulating the production of serotonin, a neurohormone that plays a role...
...moved into an elliptical orbit. It was the first of twin Viking spacecraft, each with an orbiter and a lander, launched by NASA to help satisfy man's curiosity about the possibilities of life on the planet. The Viking I orbiter's immediate chore was to survey the Martian surface and transmit pictures of potential landing sites. Once the lander was safely down (on July 20, 1976), the orbiter began snapping away at its aerial photographic study...
...were nine more deaths from leukemia than expected in a population of 20,000 (28 vs. 19). The study, uncovered by the Washington Post under the Freedom of Information Act, had long been ignored by the U.S.P.H.S. because, as its author admitted, the pattern of deaths was inconclusive. Another survey of the fallout area showed a growing number of thyroid cancer deaths between 1965 and 1967. It too was inconclusive; but both studies should have encouraged further monitoring of the residents...