Word: surveying
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Harvard Business School this week placed second in a Business Week survey of the nation's top schools, but B-School students yesterday said they were unperturbed by the results...
Perhaps Newsweek or Time will pick up on this and other surveys showing similar trends towards careers in academia and public-service, and suddenly proclaim that our generation has found its way. Having become repulsed by Ivan Boesky and all he represents, our generation would seem to be as socially and politically active as it should be. Future professors of social history may even point to the response to the College survey as indicating that Harvard students were somehow in the "vanguard" of a broader movement towards more socially-productive careers than selling junk bonds...
...eight-year survey of 18,571 adults in Los Angeles, Baltimore, St. Louis, New Haven, Conn., and Durham, N.C., showed that 15% have suffered anxiety disorders, such as phobias and panic attacks. More than 8% have experienced major depression. One of every six has been dependent on drugs or alcohol, the most common problem. Says UCLA psychiatrist Marvin Karno, one of the study's researchers: "The frequency of many disorders is higher than anticipated because the majority of people never come in for treatment. They cope. They suffer...
Even though most students have not objected to being gossiped about in the Harbus, Gang of Nine authors have "watered down" their weekly survey of the graduate school's juicy innuendos because of the criticisms, Keller said...
...program was produced by Mal Albaum of HBO, which also handled many of its broadcast logistics. TIME senior editor Terry Zintl provided on-air analysis of the voting results. TIME also distributed guidebooks and a questionnaire on key issues. That survey showed, among other things, that 80% of students and parents opposed new taxes to reduce the federal deficit, and 61% favor a treaty drastically reducing U.S. and Soviet nuclear-missile stockpiles. Asked to compare their future financial prospects with their parents' current circumstances, 43% of the students said they expected to be better off, and only 11% thought their...