Word: surveying
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...curse," he finished a weak fourth, with only 2.1% of the vote. For a time Republican State Senator John DeCamp threatened a write-in candidacy to provide a male alternative to what he calls a "prom-queen contest," but he soon dropped the idea. In an August survey of 449 registered Nebraska voters, a few feared that Boosalis, 67, is too old for the job, and some believed that Orr, 47, is inexperienced. But only two of those surveyed thought the Gov ernor's race had anything to do with gender...
...survey conducted last week for TIME by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman, 75% of respondents said they believe drug use in the country as a whole is very serious. (Some 17% said it is fairly serious, 6% somewhat serious and 1% not serious.) Only 35%, however, agreed that it is very serious in their own communities. While experts think regular cocaine use leveled off about six years ago, the number of Americans who say they know someone who has tried the drug has actually grown in the past 3 1/2 years. In March 1983, 24% said someone close to them had used...
Despite their great age, the stumps, logs and leaves are astonishingly well preserved. "This fossil forest is not petrified, turned to stone by minerals entering and replacing the wood cell structure," says Neil McMillan, of the Geological Survey of Canada, who discovered a similar but much smaller site 30 years ago on nearby Ellesmere Island. Instead, shallow burial in the Arctic soil has left the forest in a mummified state. As a result, says Basinger, "you can saw the wood. You can burn it." Indeed, during an expedition to the site in July, he actually brewed...
...toward treatment programs, under an implied or explicit threat of being fired if they refuse. Look, for example, at what happened in the U.S. armed forces after they intensified random mass urine tests four years ago. In 1980, when tests were infrequent, 27% of some 20,000 military personnel surveyed admitted that they had used drugs during the previous 30 days; in a comparable confidential survey last year, the proportion dropped to 9%. Says Julian Barber, a Pentagon health official: "The word has gone out to the 2.2 million men and women in uniform. If you want to stay...
...drug abuse and addiction abounded, the inevitable backlash set in, with a decidedly racist and xenophobic tinge. A 1910 federal survey reported that "cocaine is often the direct incentive to the crime of rape by the Negroes in the South and other sections of the country." Southern sheriffs believed cocaine even rendered blacks impervious to .32-cal. bullets (as a result many police departments switched to .38-cal.). Chinese immigrants were blamed for importing the opium-smoking habit to the U.S. "If the Chinaman cannot get along without his dope," concluded the blue-ribbon citizens' panel, the Committee...