Word: surveying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...British travel industry. The existence of the Reeves is an indication of how rankled some travelers are by the standards of other London hotels. The Businesswoman's Travel Club, founded two years ago to "provide a voice for women who receive second-class service when they travel," conducted a survey earlier this year that yielded a flood of complaints about life on the road. Many women are tired of ironing skirts with a trouser press or drying long hair on a space heater. Says Kirsty Maxey, 25, a marketing executive: "It's about time hotels realized that the 'executive' amenities...
...change, there was good news from the front lines in the nation's seemingly intractable war on drugs. A new federal survey has found that casual drug use just may be winding down...
According to the 1988 survey on drug abuse commissioned by the Department of Health and Human Services, the number of Americans using illicit drugs at least once a month dropped from 23 million in 1985 to 14.5 million last year. Even more striking, the number of cocaine users has dropped an estimated 50%. "Illicit drug use remains much too high," said DHHS Secretary Louis Sullivan. "But the dramatic declines ((show that)) attitudes are changing...
...journalistic devices can tap those feelings more succinctly than an opinion poll. This week we decided that our cover story on the hostage crisis in Lebanon needed an accurate reading of popular thought, so we asked our regular polling firm, Connecticut-based Yankelovich Clancy Shulman, to conduct a survey. On one day, 25 interviewers telephoned 500 people at random and asked them 22 questions for an average of six minutes. The results were put into computers and tabulated, with a margin of error of plus or minus 4.5% taken into account. They were then sent to Nation editor Robert...
...polls can be surprising as well as illuminating. Before the presidential election, for instance, TIME surveys about G.O.P. contenders revealed an undetected support for George Bush that presaged his march to the White House. And a TIME poll taken after the stock-market crash of 1987 showed that contrary to cries of financial doom, most Americans did not think Wall Street's woes really affected them much. Last week, when we profiled the rise of television-news stars, the editors found it useful to survey their relative importance to the public...