Word: surveyers
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Although a total breakdown of figures will not be available until next September, Clifton said the survey shows that 86 per cent of those contacted had given to the fund, and about 70 per cent of the alumni give almost every five years...
These were the major findings of the latest TIME Soundings, a quarterly survey of the mood and outlook of Americans that began in May 1974. Soundings consists of a series of political and social indicators that were developed for TIME by Yankelovich, Skelly and White Inc., the New York-based public-opinion-research firm. The analysts tabulated the recent results last week from telephone interviews conducted in mid-May with a representative sample of 1,014 Americans of voting age. Results for each individual survey have an error factor of plus or minus 3%; in estimating trends from one quarter...
...TRENDS. The latest survey turned up significant developments in four of Soundings' regular indicators. Items...
...debris every hour. Right below the mountain's summit, the 1,600-ft.-wide crater is so thick with fumes that geologists can enter only with gas masks. Does this spectacular activity foreshadow the first major eruption in the lower U.S. in a half-century? U.S. Geological Survey scientists refuse to speculate. "Some volcanoes erupt with hardly any warning," explains Geologist Mark F. Meier. "Others puff for a while, then fade back to obscurity...
...economic question of the moment: What will consumers do with the bulk of the money? Use it to repay old bills? Tuck it away in savings accounts? Or spend it promptly in ways that could help the economy recover from its worst slump since the 1930s? Last week a survey by TIME correspondents clearly indicated that most of the early dollars are indeed being spent quickly. This finding strengthens hopes that an upsurge in consumer buying, fueled by $8.1 billion of rebate money being paid out in May and June, will lead to an early launching of the long-awaited...