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Just 19 percent of undergraduates in the survey said that Summers should resign, while about 57 percent said he should not. The online survey polled 424 students and carried a margin of error of approximately 4.6 percent...
...Germany, business confidence is at its highest point since May 2000, according to a recent survey, auguring well for the new coalition government led by Chancellor Angela Merkel. In a well-received Davos speech, Merkel promised to introduce greater flexibility into the German economy and attack bureaucracy in an attempt to break out of what she called "our self-inflicted paralysis...
...Kurds of rights to negotiate their own energy deals. It was a risky move, since politicians were bitterly divided over who would control Iraq's massive oil resources under a new constitution. Yet as that argument raged, DNO quietly hired the seismic company Terra Seis (Malta) Ltd. to survey its area. The results were stunningly clear. "We could tell very quickly that there was structure containing hydrocarbons," says Kevin Plintz, a Canadian geophysicist who owns Terra Seis and oversaw the work...
...past administrations, this year's council, led by UC president John S. Haddock ’07 and vice-president Annie R. Riley ’07, has pledged to use polling more extensively to gauge student opinion on a range of issues; the UC is currently conducting a survey on the women’s center and polls on the future social programming have been proposed...
...member, said that Harvard wasdisregarding the interests of residents. “Harvard is making that decision full well, knowing that the community is bearing the brunt of it,” he said. Cambridge City Councillor Marjorie C. Decker, who also sits on the committee, said that a survey she had taken of residents in the area indicated that they would prefer that construction last longer, in exchange for the cessation of Saturday work. The committee also complained about emissions from construction vehicles, which residents have previously protested at neighborhood meetings. Residents demand that Harvard insist that its contractors...