Word: surveying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Firm statistics are not available on the number of abortions performed each year nor on who has them. Moreover, the survey by the Alan Guttmacher Institute says that most abortions are performed on white, middle-class women because they make up the bulk of the population of women of childbearing...
WASHINGTON--Hispanic and Black women, women with low incomes, those living with someone to whom they are not married and those in school are statistically more likely to undergo abortions than women in general, a private survey has concluded...
...poll sponsored by the American Jewish Committee shows similar feelings among rank-and-file American Jews. The survey found that 58% of American Jews endorse and 18% oppose Israeli-P.L.O. negotiations, provided Arafat's recognition of Israel and renunciation of terrorism are genuine. The poll found that, by a lesser margin, they favor Labor over Likud...
...uproar has indicated that the Black community on this campus feels that there is an issue of general police racism, which transcends this individual incident. A survey of upperclassmen last spring, for example, revealed that 45 percent of Black students responding said that they believed that minorities were treated differently by University police most or all of the time. No matter what happened last week, we must take advantage of this opportunity to discuss such concerns and seek possible solutions...
...fourth essay, on the '60s, focuses on the Vietnam conflict. He was listed in a survey as writer outstandingly in favor of continuing American involvement in Vietnam, but Updike felt misrepesented. So he wrote a letter to The New York Times in 1966, "claiming that not only I but the president (whoever he was) was not an ostrich...