Word: surveyers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thus businessmen are unusually cautious these days in planning for the future. According to a McGraw-Hill survey, they intend to increase real spending -that is, after allowing for inflation-on new plant and equipment next year by only 3%. That would represent a sharp drop from this year's increase of about 8%, which economists consider insufficient. Indeed, the Administration had hoped for an 8% to 10% increase in capital spending next year to keep production growing, bring down unemployment and continue the nation's recovery from the deep recession...
...petering out. Two weeks ago he declared: "Anyone who wonders why capital spending has been so halting or why stock prices have behaved so poorly for so long would be well advised to study this dismal record of what American business has been earning." Indeed, a Wall Street Journal survey last week found that analysts expect corporate balance sheets to take a turn for the worse next year, which could mean a further slash in capital-investment plans and even a cut in dividends...
Mary Ellen Preusser bills herself as a human services advocate. Over the past year she has conducted a survey to determine what issues are most important to Cambridge citizens. She has discovered the voters care most about rent control, police protection, youth counseling and services for the elderly. She supports human and civil rights, including the civil rights of homosexuals...
Next summer, however, Leakey will lead a team to search south of Lake Turkana at a site called Suguta. The region is roadless, and he will have to go in, as in the old days, by donkey and camel. The discomforts may be worth it; a geological survey of the area shows fossil-bearing sediments between 5 million and 9 million years old, laid down in a period that has so far yielded few clues about the ascent...
...Rosen's new book, Psychobabble, is an attempt to interpret some of the therapeutic trends outside traditional psychoanalysis that he has observed here in the '70s. The book is not a survey and the issues he addresses ("the relationship between language and psychology and the subversion of that relationship by the jargon of today") are "beyond considerations of who can find what kind of happiness when..." His approach is highly intellectualized rather than that of a "How-to" type guide. It is rarely pedantic, though, barbed as it is by a wit akin to stainless steel wire, brilliant and deadly...