Word: surveying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Monday night, serving up burgers and showing a videotape of the movie "Caddyshack" on the grill's television. Eric J. Bentley '90, one of the students who own and operate the Kirkland grill, emphasizes that grill managers will "strive to maintain our number one status," referring to a survey of house grills conducted last year by The Harvard Independent...
...Winthrop grill was rated worst in last year's survey, and Choo says "we can only...
...those problems, the agency faces a new lawsuit from the National Housing Law Project, a California-based public interest law firm. The group contends that under a 1987 law, HUD is required to survey its inventory to see if some of the empty houses could be used to provide shelter for the homeless...
...thriving is democracy in the world today? According to Freedom House, a New York-based nonprofit organization that publishes an annual study of comparative levels of world freedom, 58 of the world's 167 nations in 1987 could be considered "free," 58 "partly free" and 51 "unfree." The Comparative Survey of Freedom is certainly not infallible in its estimates, but its criteria of evaluation, in both the political and civil spheres, are consistent. It asks, for example, whether opposition political parties may organize and compete for power, whether the press is free, or whether the government ever loses a case...
...Elder care lags behind child care on the corporate agenda, but increasing numbers of companies recognize that Grandpa can sometimes create more trouble than Junior. IBM learned in an employee survey last year that 30% of its workers help take care of elderly relatives. So starting last February, the computer company began operating the first nationwide elder-care referral service for its 237,000 employees and 33,000 retirees. In the first month alone, more than 4,000 employees called for help. Bobby Sloan, 55, an IBM equipment designer in San Jose, Calif., used the service to arrange medical care...