Word: wrongful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pollsters rose to fame and influence on the basis of two celebrated debacles. During the 1936 presidential campaign, the old Literary Digest ran a mail poll and was wrong, while three more scientific pollsters were right. Those three-George H. Gallup, Elmo Roper and Archibald Crossley-conducted interviews among a predetermined mix of ethnic, income and age groups that seemed representative of the U.S. population. The other turning point was in 1948, when the pollsters again used this "quota system" of sampling-but were wrong. The U.S. had become so complex that picking just the right population...
...polls build band wagons? The evidence thus far suggests that they may do just the reverse-as in 1948, when Harry Truman urged the public to "prove the polls wrong." If polls really sway voters, argues Gallup, Dewey would have won. But polls do present other problems. They give an edge to rich candidates, who can afford more and deeper polls than less affluent candidates. Old-line party chieftains worry that the polls have robbed them of some of their previous powers to dictate nominations-though few people would complain about that...
...wrong, at least for that day. Picking up eight votes from Jacques Duhamel's Centrist independents, the government of Premier Pompidou survived with eleven votes to spare. Socialist Guy Mollet discounted the results. "Outside this Assembly," he cried, "the censure has already been voted." In a way, Pompidou almost agreed. "Things will never be exactly the same again," he conceded...
...semiautonomous districts with their own parent-dominated policy boards. Such local control, the panel argued, would make the schools more responsible to the needs of the community; it would also keep parents from blaming the city's board of education, a remote central power, for everything that goes wrong. The plan was enthusiastically endorsed by Mayor John Lindsay, who presented it to the legislature...
...meditator thinks a war is wrong, and non-meditators order him to fight, should be refuse...