Word: survey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hanging above it and a big, dark-stained dining table where the 11 inhabitants eat the common supper they take turns cooking. A brown-and-white cat watched us steadily from the sill of a bay window. "It adopted us," Luscomb says, watching the cat swish its tail and survey a spider crawling on the outside of the glass...
With strong family and community pressure at work, why are these young Jews following Jesus? Theodore Freedman of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith says they are "largely children with emotional problems." Donald LeMagdeleine, a Roman Catholic who is conducting the first careful survey of the young converts for a thesis at Berkeley's Graduate Theological Union, disagrees. They want a religious experience that they did not find in their synagogues or in Jewish cultural upbringing, he says. "They are not looking for Jewish rap groups. They are looking...
Adams will continue as conductor of the Harvard Glee Club and the Collegium Musicum next year but will no longer teach Music 1, "A Survey of Western Music...
...surprising vote was in sharp contrast to the placid and generally lackluster campaign that preceded it. Shortly before election day, according to one survey, 43% of the eligible voters felt that it made little difference which party won. Obviously, though, they cared more than the pollsters and politicians suspected. With Ireland suffering its worst economic slump in 50 years-unemployment has reached 10% and inflation 16%-voters were apparently impressed by Lynch's Action Plan for National Reconstruction, which promised, among other things, to create 20,000 new jobs...
...alltime high of $33 billion in 1973 to $22 billion last year, and has continued to decline so far in 1977. Much of the rise in food prices in recent years, says Hayes, was caused by climbing costs of transportation, processing and retailing. Hayes notes that a recent Government survey of 400 banks in nine farm states found that 14,000 farmers will not be able to repay their bank loans and could go out of business...