Word: surveyers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...third party's fracturing what is left of the post-Watergate G.O.P. horrifies regular Republicans, as speaker after speaker made plain at a gathering of 2,700 state and local party leaders in Washington last week. It began with the bad news that the party's own survey shows only 7% of voters now regard themselves as strong Republicans and only 18% as Republicans at all: 42% of Americans say they are Democrats, and 40% independents. President Ford warned against "fanatic factions" and "elite guards" who would threaten the rebuilding of the party and could contribute...
Fredrick Hird '57, chairman of the Washington committee, said yesterday that was unaware of any decrease in the number of blacks applying from the Washington area. Hird said he had not been given any figures from the admissions office and had not attempted a survey...
...exposure to statistics can likewise provide the student with skills that are applicable to a wide variety of public programs. The use of survey and sampling techniques can help policymakers obtain more reliable knowledge in evaluating public problems and recommending solutions. Statistics can also provide greater sophistication in making predictive judgments and assessing risks. Familiarity with computer techniques can make available a variety of methods for organizing and utilizing unwieldy masses of data. Even more important, statistics can provide the essential knowledge required to evaluate public programs to determine how effective they are in carrying out their intended goals...
...population, or slightly less than 6 million people. Yet, partly because so many areas of corporate America have, in the past at least, been closed preserves of Gentile power, Jews are represented far beyond their numbers in the professions: law, science, teaching, medicine, including dentistry and psychiatry. In a survey to determine the nation's top 70 intellectuals, the quarterly Public Interest produced a list that was half Jewish...
Whitla dismisses the notion that many women are actually discontented with their status in the Houses, a situation caused by sex ratios heavily weighted toward men, which too often makes women seem not human but merely representatives of sex. "Our survey [the Whitla-Pinck Report] showed less complaints about ratios than one would expect. In Eliot, women are pretty happy. Maybe the type of women who want to live in Eliot House like the ratios as they...