Word: testing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thing, any poll sponsored by a candidate is quite possibly slanted. Polls conducted by newspapers may also be unreliable because they do not test a true random sample but measure a floating population on street corners and in bars, tending to overlook housewives, elderly people and stay-at-homes. The best polls are those conducted by established, well-known polling organizations that regularly publish results. Even these may be suspect if the sample was less than 1,000, the question is unstated, and the poll was taken more than two weeks before publication...
Appeal for a Mandate. For nearly three weeks, as revolt spread throughout France, De Gaulle said nothing in public, true to his precept that "nothing enhances authority better than silence." Then he went on television, his image preceded and followed only by a test pattern, since the employees at the state-owned television studios had gone out on strike too. His sparse hair carefully combed over his pate, he looked rested and relaxed, a paragon of composure. "Everyone understands," he said, "the significance of the present events?in our universities and then in the social fields...
...Henley has been in the back of our minds all year," said Sullivan. "It's quite something to see. As a social event it is comparable to Ascot or a cricket Test Match at Lord...
...Leonard did what he could to improve the driver to car ratio by stuffing last year's car into the first-turn wall during a test run. As a reward Granatelli hired him to drive number 60, which had originally been assigned to Mike Spence. It wasn't a bad move. When the first day of qualifying ended, Leonard held the pole position...
Kafatos is right now engaged in further experiments with the new salt, to test that informosomes actually do exist. It has been suggested that cancer is a special case of a cell's function being transformed by a virus. A cancer cell has broken out of the normal limits on its growth and function. If scientists can discover what makes cells less stable in their commitment to a limited, differentiated career, and thus more liable to become cancerous, he might be able to find ways to treat this process. Yet Kafatos repeatedly emphasizes the fact that he is still distant...