Word: surveying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...survey of 1200 researchers at 40 major universities nationwide also outlined potential benefits to universities of industry-funded research, which has grown twice as fast as government support this decade, from $135 million to $290 million...
Despite the survey's findings, however, Harvard professors and doctors who are involved in industry-sponsored research said that they feel no pressure to commercialize their research, and feel perfectly free to publish all of their findings...
Faculty members receiving industrial monies are four times as likely to keep the results of their research secret from the academic community, the survey discovered, and four times more likely to allow commercial applications of their research to redirect their projects...
...stranger again on these shores, I survey a landscape whose surface has changed almost beyond recognition. To rehearse these alterations would be tedious, so let us quickly grant what we all know: the 24 states and 13 million inhabitants of 1831 have swelled to 50 and 240 million; scientific advances have stretched beyond my power of foresight; the United States is no longer an infant among nations but the most powerful entity on earth...
Democrats could also take cheer from a miserable showing by supporters of far-right Extremist Lyndon LaRouche. A preliminary survey by the Associated Press indicated that 40 or more candidates allied to LaRouche lost nominating campaigns for elective offices in New Jersey, California, Iowa and Alabama. One initially unchallenged LaRouche candidate in Orange County, Calif., was so weak that a last-minute write-in campaign for County Democratic Chairman Bruce Sumner came within 500 votes of stopping him. Sumner, who jumped into the race to halt the LaRouche onslaught, is expected to call for a recount...