Word: surveyers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...teaching them how to get along with the people on Capitol Hill. O'Neill took charge of Administration measures and pushed many of them through the House, including the energy bill, which whipped through with few changes?only to run out of gas in the Senate. According to a survey by Congressional Quarterly, the House and Senate sided with Carter on 75% of the key votes, a better record than Gerald Ford's 54% in 1976 but a 25-year low for a President whose party also controls Congress...
...measure of any crusade's success is the number of people who become "responsible church members." In 1976 a Billy Graham crusade drew 434,100 people to Seattle's Kingdome in eight days, and 18,000 people "came forward" to profess faith in Christ. Arn's survey, done a year later and just released, reveals that of these, 54% were people simply rededicating themselves to the faith. But local churches received 8,400 cards signed by converts. According to Arn's study, only 1,285 of those-about 15% -ended up as active church members...
...detached-observer position, determined to give a "fair" description of movements which he was not personally involved with. However, as the time passed, he found himself emotionally (and not just academically) caught up in the phenomenon he was researching. The results were unexpected. What had begun as a survey of the various Eastern religious organizations over the country at large turned into more of an autobiographical essay. Cox moved from bending-over-backwards-to-avoid-bias against what he initially considered to be "inward" and "socially passive" philosophies (this stance, Cox wryly admits, was "tepid, commendably moderate, and, above...
...survey, conducted by College Marketing and Research Corporation, a subsidiary of Playboy, and Leslie A. Riffkin & Associates, indicates that 74 per cent of the 4170 American students surveyed drink beer, 84 use alcohol, but only 28 per cent smoke cigarettes...
...survey is no casual exercise in abstract research. Palmdale sits atop the San Andreas Fault, the great crack that marks the boundary between two of the earth's shifting tectonic plates. Scientists fear that the ominous rise of the 83,000-sq.-km. (32,000-sq.-mi.) region, nicknamed the Palmdale Bulge, could be the first hint of a future major earthquake along that section of the fault, which lies only some 56 km. (35 miles) north of downtown Los Angeles...