Word: surveying
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MIDWAY through the publication, Biblical Scoreboard says its survey is "not intended, nor implied, to be a statistical judgment of a person's personal moral behavior or relationship with God." Only an indicator, it seems, of how the candidates will "impact families, children, and national" morality...
Where can you find 2% to 4% unemployment, world-renowned medical specialists and plenty of leisure activities? The Danbury, Conn., area, community of 158,000 the best place in the U.S. according to a Money magazine survey. Money asked subscribers to weigh 50 factors such as low crime, real estate appreciation, schools, climate, transportation, parks and medical care on a scale of one to ten, and then used Census data to find out which metropolitan areas met those criteria...
...great pioneers of modern painting: the man who, with Picasso, invented cubism; who then painted some of the most exquisitely felt and wrought pictures of our century; in whom the classicist, Cartesian strain in French painting came to a peak. Yet the last proper American survey of Braque (1882-1963) was almost 40 years ago. Since then there have been shows, very beautiful ones (how could they not be?), of this or that aspect of Braque. But the whole elephant? Never...
Geographical ignorance is often accompanied by political naivete, as demonstrated by a series of more in-depth questions which the pollsters asked over 1600 Americans. The survey found that not more than half of adult Americans know that the Sandinistas and contras are fighting each other in Nicaragua; most placed the conflict in Iran, Lebanon or Afganistan. In addition, 50 percent of Americans could not name a single member of the Warsaw Pact; 10 percent erroneously placed the United States as a member of the Soviet bloc...
...anything, the National Geographic survey results highlight the danger of looking back at the expense of anticipating the future. As populations continue to soar in the Third World, the U.S. will represent a smaller and smaller proportion of the world's population. And economically, the Far East has already achieved unparalleled influence that will only continue to grow...