Word: groups
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Earlier in the summer, three Cambridge-area academics joined a group of Americans attending a Tehran conference on U.S. intervention in Iran, violating Carter's ban on travel to that country and risking prosecution...
Historically, Cambridge residents have never though the project was a good idea. Two years ago, a group of citizens and the City Council brought suit to block the Red Line extension, which was originally slated to go from Harvard all the way to Arlington. They lost the suit and construction continued, as did the problems. Before the construction even began, tight finances cut short the line at Alewife Brook Parkway instead of Arlington. But once the MBTA surmounted the legal and financial battles a few years ago, the plan hit few other hurdles--until...
First, he wants to get the team playing together as a cohesive unit because "each year you get a group of different individuals but if you can develop a team philosophy from those individuals then there's no telling what...
...survey pinpoints one group of voters still posing a considerable problem for Carter: the former followers of Senator Edward Kennedy. Despite the efforts at the Democratic National Convention to patch up the party's deep rift and Kennedy's later pledges of support for Carter, the Senator's followers now split three ways on what they intend to do: 39% say they will back Carter; 28% prefer Anderson; a surprising 22% are disaffected that they say they will ump over the wall and vote for Reagan. That degree of party defection could cripple the Carter candidacy...
Trying to find that edge for Jimmy Carter, Caddell has used some offbeat techniques. During the conventions, he wired up more than 100 "focus group" volunteers around the country with a kind of emotion-revealing polygraph to monitor their reactions to Ronald Reagan's and Carter's acceptance speeches, noting which passages excited them and which stirred no response. But the real key to his operation is almost constant polling, surveys remarkable for their numbers, length and depth...