Word: surveying
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This sense of acceleration is not just a vague and spotted impression. According to a Harris survey, the amount of leisure time enjoyed by the average American has shrunk 37% since 1973. Over the same period, the average workweek, including commuting, has jumped from under 41 hours to nearly 47 hours. In some professions, predictably law, finance and medicine, the demands often stretch to 80-plus hours a week. Vacations have shortened to the point where they are frequently no more than long weekends. And the Sabbath is for -- what else? -- shopping...
Diet members of all ranks, moreover, are routinely expected to ante up for their constituents at weddings, funerals and other rites of passage. A survey of 89 Diet members by the daily Asahi Shimbun showed that each spent about $4,200 a month on an average of seven weddings and 27 funerals. Thus, despite the call by Takeshita and others for campaign-financing reform, University of Tokyo political scientist Takashi Inoguchi remains pessimistic. Says he: "How can we carry out reforms when even the voters are getting money...
Students said that some seniors might not fill out the forms accurately because of their objections to a mandatory survey...
...Undergraduate Council Chair Kenneth E. Lee '89 said he had no problems with the questionnaires. "The survey was short enough that I didn't mind filling it out," he said...
...panel also questioned the ethics of doctors who turned away AIDS patients. Two of the panelists cited an informal survey in which only four of 198 doctor contacted agreed to treat virus carriers...