Word: surveying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although Winthrop and Quincy led the pack in that first survey, garnering 16 percent of the vote each, the second poll found that Leverett had catapulted to the lead with 17 percent of the vote...
...might be the pop-music equivalent of the excavation of ancient Troy, but the dig was just five miles from Broadway. In 1979 Henry Cohen, an executive for Warner Bros. Music, which owns publication rights to the songs, made a rough survey of the Secaucus material. "He didn't know its significance," Kimball recalls, "but he sent the list around. In 1982 he showed it to Donald Rose, a Gershwin scholar. Donald thought it was awesome and called me. In the first two boxes we found Gershwin's Pardon My English, which was presumed lost, and Cole Porter...
...implications of the high court's pronouncement were dramatized last week by a Louis Harris survey of 227 scientists. They predicted that more than 1,000,000 Americans will have developed AIDS by the year 2000 if no cure or vaccine is discovered before then. Courts and administrative agencies in about half the states have already decided that AIDS falls within the scope of state-level disability statutes. Last week's decision from the high bench sent a complementary message. "The message is of common sense in a time of crisis," proclaimed Thomas Stoddard, executive director of the Lambda Legal...
...seeking to diversify their tools. The University of Tennessee at Knoxville, for example, uses the College Outcome Measurement Project (COMP) exam to test student ability to clarify values, solve higher-order problems, and communicate. Seniors are also asked to evaluate their college experience and education in a thorough survey...
Robinson said the magazine was catering to "ageneral public desire for simplified information,"and that the survey is just a ploy to increasemagazine sales