Word: surveying
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...political campaigns. Members of a prescreened focus group are issued hand- operated dials on which to register their approval or disapproval, on a scale of 1 to 7, of whatever they are viewing on a TV screen. A computer combines the results and displays them instantaneously to the survey takers. EAR tests conducted during several Democratic debates last summer suggested that Arizona Democrat Bruce Babbitt was not coming across well on TV. Babbitt's staff reviewed the videotapes and ordered special coaching to sharpen the candidate's delivery...
...untold American success story." That was what President Reagan called the latest figures on teenage drug use in his State of the Union address last month. He proudly cited an annual survey by the University of Michigan's Institute of Social Research that showed a sharp drop in the number of teenagers who had used cocaine and other drugs in the past year. The President did not mention the untold American failure: despite tougher law enforcement, widespread publicity and sweeping educational campaigns, alcohol remains the drug of choice among today's high school students, and its popularity continues unabated...
...comes on the heels of a survey showing Dole with a double-digit lead over Bush in a poll published by the Des Moines Register, while indicating Missouri Rep. Richard Gephardt led Illinois Sen. Paul Simon and Dukakis among the Democrats...
...survey of 300 voters likely to attend the caucuses, released Friday by the Cambridge Reports polling firm, suggests a close clustering of support among the Democratic candidates as of the period between January 29 and February...
Students said that they were allowed tointegrate preparatory work in tropical medicineand medical survey courses into their studies...