Word: thought
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stack the cards by only interviewing people who have adopted cults and then been "deprogrammed," including Mansonite Leslie van Houten), as well as professional deprogrammer Ted Patrick, and parents and friends of cult member to show that the movements are using sophisticated psychological techniques to induce a mind-numbing, thought-silencing submission among their subjects...
Public opinion polls now say that a great number of people think Jimmy Carter has finally found it. Some of us never thought he lost...
...over a four-day period ending Oct. 8. The poll does not indicate any overwhelming sense of national anxiety. When asked a general question - "How do you feel that things are going in the country these days?" - 50% were willing to answer with a mild "fairly well" (only 5% thought things were going "very well"). Fully 76% felt the future would eventually bring prosperity, and 40% thought that their own standard of living would get better during the next year or two. Republicans and Westerners tended to be the most pessimistic; Carter supporters and those under 35 tended...
...when Carter took office. And when questioned about their worries, they said that the state of the economy was by far the most troublesome. Some 62% cited it as one of the national issues "that particularly concern you." Only 8% appeared worried about crime hi the streets and 2% thought relations with the Soviets were a problem. Concern about the economy has risen sharply during Carter's Administration. Only 42% cited the economy as a major worry hi March 1977, as compared with 62% today. Worry about crime in the streets, by contrast, has dropped in half during that...
...impression of Carter. Shortly after he took office, 48% said their opinion of Carter had improved, compared with 6% who said it had worsened. At one of his low points, last June, only 11% said their opinion of him had improved since he took office, while 37% said they thought less of him. Now 21% feel better about him and only 26% feel worse...