Word: majority
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...before the presidential election, the gurus of public opinion polling were nearly unanimous in their findings. In survey after survey, they agreed that the coming choice between President Jimmy Carter and Challenger Ronald Reagan was "too close to call." A few points at most, they said, separated the two major contenders...
...public opinion industry has christened Caddell's thesis the "big bang" theory of the campaign: 8 million voters moving to Reagan in 48 hours. To a large extent, most public opinion researchers support this theory, although many do so with major qualifications...
...Three major non-financial issues confronted President Bok and the six other Fellows in their consideration of this question. First, the company would have involved a Faculty member--Mark S. Ptashne, professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology--in a major role. Second, the University had to determine its role in the commercial application of its potentially lucrative DNA patents. And, in general, the issue of "technology transfer"--how knowledge is transmitted from the academic to the commercial sector--became more pressing than it has since Harvard re-examined its patent policy in 1975 and decided to help professors patent their...
...goal was our prime weakness at the beginning of the season, so Rich's performance at the position played a major role in our success," Pike says...
...Change will result mainly from economic pressure, but no major cornerstone of apartheid will be touched," Suzman said...