Word: survey
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...Burnett spent two weeks in Baluchistan for the accompanying story on that troubled Pakistani province. In Washington, State Department Correspondent Chris Ogden obtained an exclusive interview with former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and talked at length privately with National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski. The result is a comprehensive survey of the movements and currents that are roiling a vital and fascinating part of the world...
TIME's survey of attempts by some Third World governments to control news [Nov. 20] contains a historic misunderstanding. In referring to the autobiography of former Associated Press General Manager Kent Cooper, it was stated that a cartel of European news agencies controlled "all the news that flowed into and out of the U.S. until well into the 1930s." In fact, United Press International (then United Press) began serving overseas clients in 1909, and by 1929 its service was going to 1,170 newspapers in 45 overseas countries and territories. It covered the world for its U.S. subscribers with...
...complete a picture as possible of the effects of inflation on Americans, the Labor Department periodically updates the 400-odd components in its Consumer Price Index, discarding products like pedal pushers and bobby pins and adding new items such as jogging suits and pocket calculators. As a general survey of how Americans spend, the technique is valid enough. But consumers are not automatons; they are 220 million individuals...
Winthrop attributed low turnouts in both Dudley and Kirkland houses--20 and 30 per cent respectively--to poor survey efforts. In Kirkland House, surveys were only available for three of the six meals they were supposed to be distributed at. Dudley House residents, most of whom live off campus, had to go to Lehman Hall to answer the survey...
Those, at least, are the results of a Student Assembly referendum, the first wide-ranging survey of student opinions conducted in recent years and the body's first major project. More than 3780 undergraduates--almost 60 per cent of the student body--took part in the survey...