Word: surveying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Results of a major survey on College life of more than 2500 undergraduates last spring are released, in three parts...
...fall of 1990, Juan Bruce-Novoa, a professor from Trinity University, will teach a survey course in Chicano literature and a course on methods of research on the Chicano novel...
...case centers on the thin strips of lubricating material found on most new razors. Wilkinson claims that a 320-customer survey proves consumers prefer its blue-stripped Ultra Glide razor to Gillette's white-stripped Atra Plus. Not surprisingly, Gillette has conducted its own customer survey, which it says establishes the opposite sentiment. Alas, an issue that once would have been judged at the bathroom sink now seems likely to be decided in court...
...House subcommittee released a General Accounting Office survey that found air-traffic controllers were overworked and unhappy in their jobs. "Morale is horrible, traffic intolerable, management insensitive," an unidentified controller told...
...treatises to unearth facts. They rely on more than 200 sources and spend a year putting together a single volume, at a bargain-basement cost of $600,000. Naturally, the authors are looking forward to the huge 1990 census, with its treasure trove of information. Updated data from that survey should begin to appear in the 1991 edition. If one obscure fact or another happens to be missing from the volume, which costs $32 hardbound and $26 in paperback, the statisticians can probably find it -- as they did when an Australian wanted to know how much yogurt Americans consume. Answer...