Word: survey
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...practice is often a contributing factor in tensions between minorities and police. Last week the Justice Department released a 12-city survey in which 24% of the blacks who were polled said they were unhappy with their local police. It was a smaller number than might be expected at a time of prominent police-brutality cases, including the trial of three New York City officers accused of assaulting Haitian immigrant Abner Louima. But it was a far higher number than the 10% of whites unhappy with police...
...included in our survey another kind of exemplar: the icon, the embodiment of an ideal that affects the way we live or act, for better or worse. Marilyn Monroe, the paramount platinum goddess, became an indelible work of Pop art. The Kennedys gave off an aura in which Americans basked, happy to think that the U.S. had become a place where you could grow up to be royalty. Princess Diana, conversely, became a symbol of Everywoman's search for happiness...
...January 25, 1999: A Crimson survey found that 24 percent of Harvard undergraduates said they have used drugs while at Harvard. Twenty-three percent said they have used marijuana. Forty-one percent of humanities concentrators said they have used drugs at the College, compared to 18 percent of natural science concentrators and 24 percent of social science concentrators...
...survey called HUPD a "reactive" force during the 1970s, essentially aimed at being in position to flood a crime scene with officers immediately after a crime was reported...
People have many things to say about what they believe Harvard lacks, whether it is The Crimson's diatribe against Harvard's lack of happiness, the Independent's sex survey about lack of social life, discussion in the makeshift community of the shuttle bus about fragmentation, questions about advising raised by student suicides or the disenchanted scholar who once sat next to me and wrote, "section is like a bad first date" in his notebook in lieu of notes. Things can seem dire and dismal amidst the ugly gray of slush and snow or the guilt produced by unopened books...