Word: groups
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Mitofsky picks his sample precincts on a strictly statistical basis. Says he: "I don't believe in expert advice and hunches. All I want to know is how many people live there, which party did they support last time around and which county is it in? If my group of precincts reflects these factors in a state, then we will have a pretty good picture of how that state is voting." Mitofsky has made only one bad call at CBS in 13 years: Ford, not Carter, ended up winning Oregon...
During his campaign stop in slump-plagued Youngstown, Ohio, last week, Jimmy Carter pointed to a batch of upbeat statistics and happily assured a group of steelworkers that the battered U.S. economy is "recovering very well." But only four days later, and with little more than a week remaining in Campaign '80, the Government itself reported a shocker that was sure to keep the President's economic stewardship a prime concern of voters on Nov. 4-and push inflation squarely onto center stage again as the nation's No. 1 problem...
...expected, the campaign is climaxing with the economy perking up again. After a spring and summer of wary hesitation, consumers are starting to spend again and retail sales are inching up. A July-through-September survey of 1,600 top executives by New York's Conference Board research group shows business confidence itself to be improving...
Though the week-to-week figures have been encouraging, the underlying distortions and weaknesses in the economy have, if anything, grown worse in the course of the 1980 downturn. Says James Solloway of the Argus Research Corp., a private economic study group: "We got through the recession without solving any of the big problems. We still have very high inflation, very volatile money markets, lagging productivity and very deeply entrenched inflationary expectations." What is more, economists now fear that the recovery could fizzle out altogether in early 1981, sending the economy stumbling back into recession all over again, no matter...
...teaching on birth control. And it soon became clear that many bishops in non-Western parts of the world take a dim view of contraception. Social-action liberal bishops from Brazil and other Third World nations spoke with special vehemence against it. Declared one Spanish language working group at the synod: "Christian marriage must be considered as a vocation to fertility...