Word: verba
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Dates: during 1976-1976
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...Verba said the survey will include leaders of organizations of business, labor, agriculture, politics, the media, academics, women, and blacks...
...Verba will analyze the data, including rankings of national priorities, on the basis of differences between the eight segments, age groups, and local versus national leaders, Verba said...
...Verba said that he and Barry Sussman, The Washington Post's editor for survey reporting, chose to survey organization heads rather than generally prominent people because "it is through such organizational structures that national policy will be carried...
Organization heads "tend to be more sensitive to and more likely to reflect the views of their constituents," Verba said. He said he is planning a survey of the general public to determine the extent to which leaders accurately represent constituents...
...survey should be finished early next month, and the Post plans to use the results in a June and July series of bicentennial articles, Verba said...