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...Gross, his staff, and top Harvard officials say that bringing fresh faces into University Hall has helped reinvigorate the College—which ranked near the bottom of a 2002 student-satisfaction survey the year before Gross took office. But several professors and former administrators contend that the high level of turnover has eroded institutional memory and may be hindering cooperation between the administration and the Faculty...
...Public opinion polls conducted in recent years by the Horizon Group, an independent research outfit in Beijing, show that an almost schizophrenic attitude toward the U.S. extends far beyond the upper echelons of Chinese society. A survey in late 2005 showed that two-thirds of the respondents thought Sino-American relations had improved over the last year and that three-quarters of them liked American culture - but the U.S. was also rated as the world's most unfriendly country toward China. Some 56% said they didn't believe that Americans respect China...
...rights to negotiate their own energy deals. It was a highly risky move. Iraqi politicians remain bitterly divided over who will ultimately control the country's massive oil resources under its new constitution. Yet as that argument raged, DNO quietly hired the seismic company Terra Seis (Malta) Ltd. to survey its area. The results were stunningly clear. "We could tell very quickly that there was structure containing hydrocarbons," says Kevin Plintz, a Canadian geophysicist who owns Terra Seis. That wasn't too surprising in Tawke, where generations have watched oil seep out on the surrounding hills and turn...
...last year. "An ad medium that historically has been viewed as cumbersome and slow to react is now as flexible as broadcast," says Meyer. It's possible that, given the mobile lifestyle of today's consumers, billboards can reach more people more reliably than TV commercials. A survey released by the Association of National Advertisers and Forrester Research last month found that 78% of U.S. advertisers think traditional TV commercials have become less effective. Since TV audiences are so fragmented, insiders argue, outdoor ads are a surer way to reach more people more frequently than other forms of advertising...
Stona writes of the survey that “the basic conclusions were that our listener base was upscale, highly educated, and extremely loyal...