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In the News (Sun 3 Jun 12)

  
  ILCA Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Gallup also found that most Americans feel that the nation's health care system is either in a state of crisis (14 percent) or has major problems (53 percent).
Gallup said only 2 percent of respondents said the nation's health care system does not have any problems and 31 percent said there were minor problems.
Gallup said access to health care has emerged as a dominant problem in the past couple of years, with more than a quarter of Americans identifying it as the most urgent problem.
www.ilcaonline.org /print.php?sid=1126   (350 words)

  
 Gallup New Mexico - Genuine Gallup   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The rich assortment of art, music, ceremonials, pow-wows and cuisine shared in town by the Zuni, Hopi, Acoma and Laguna pueblos, Navajo tribe and Hispanics create the essence of Gallup.
Gallup and the surrounding area is home to several matchless stays such as Red Rock State Park catered to campers and RV's, old western style ranches, and thousands of hotel rooms from simple to extravagant.
Come to Gallup and don't just stop at the first place you see, there are several little "hole in the wall" restaurants that embrace an eclectic atmosphere and are sure to blow your socks off.
www.gallupnm.org   (382 words)

  
 LP News Jun96 - Gallup: 50 million Libertarians in U.S.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Gallup: 50 million Libertarians in U.S. The number of libertarians in America has remained consistent over the past two years, with more than 50 million Americans falling into that political category, according to a recent Gallup poll.
In a nationwide survey taken in mid-January 1996, Gallup found that 20 percent of the population was libertarian.
A January 1994 survey from Gallup reported that 22 percent of the population was Libertarian, while a March 1993 survey pegged the percentage of libertarians at 19 percent.
www.lp.org /lpn/9606-Gallup.html   (283 words)

  
 American faith broad but not deep, Gallup says
Gallup surveys consistently show that 60 percent to 80 percent of the people who attend church the first time were invited by someone from that congregation, he said.
Gallup polls are showing that the walls between faith and the rest of life are blurring or disintegrating, said Lindsay, a former DBU staff member.
But Gallup polls show that 70 percent of the population said they want to have a doctor who is spiritually in tune with them, and 50 percent would like for their doctor to pray with them.
www.baptiststandard.com /2003/4_14/print/gallup.html   (733 words)

  
 Magyar Gallup Intézet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
A parlamentbe vetett bizalom - hasonlóan a politikai rendszer többi intézményéhez, beleszámítva a "legrokonszenvesebb" pártot is - jelentősen csökkent az elmúlt két év során, derül ki a Magyar Gallup Intézet által az Országgyűlés Hivatala számára tavaly decemberben készített, 1000 fős reprezentatív közvélemény-kutatásból.
A szocialisták szimpatizánsainak aránya a statisztikai hibahatárt jóval meghaladóan, 7 százalékponttal nőtt, a Fideszé 2 százalékponttal csökkent a választókorú népesség körében - ezt mutatják a Gallup november elejei reprezentatív felmérésének adatai.
A június 13-i európai parlamenti választáson Magyarországon - mint ezt a Gallup előre jelezte - az ellenzék szerzett több mandátumot.
www.gallup.hu   (5883 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Gallup, New Mexico
Gallup (Navajo Naʼnízhoozhí) is a city located in McKinley County, New Mexico.
Route 66 runs through Gallup and the town's name is mentioned in the lyrics to the song, Route 66.
Alternate meanings of Route 66: New Jersey State Highway 66, Interstate 66, and a company named after the route US Highway 66 or Route 66 was and is the most famous road in the United States highway system and quite possibly the most famous and storied highway in the world.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Gallup,-New-Mexico   (1867 words)

  
 George Gallup - pionier al secolului XX   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In that same year, Gallup's mother-in-law, Ola Babcock Miller, was placed on the Democratic ticket in Iowa, in honor of her husband's efforts for the party.
Gallup founded the American Institute of Public Opinion in Princeton, New Jersey, and on 20 October 1935, the first release was printed.
Gallup's gift and contribution was that he knew what to measure, how to measure it and how to interpret the findings.
www.gallup.ro /romana/about_ro/20th_pioneer_ro.htm   (805 words)

  
 lincolnjobs.com - Gallup Organization
Gallup has studied human nature and behavior for more than 70 years and employs many of the world's leading business professionals.
Gallup consults with organizations to help them manage their employees and engage their customers.
Gallup is a global presence, delivering its products and services on the Web and through offices located in more than 50 cities around the world.
www.lincolnjobs.com /gallup.html   (217 words)

  
 City Of Gallup - Brief History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In 1880, a paymaster for the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad, David L. Gallup, established headquarters along the construction right-of-way of the southern transcontinental route.
The railroad workers began "going to Gallup" to get their pay; thus a town was born and named in 1881.
But, these Gallup pioneers were all newcomers themselves, because when the Spanish Conquistadors arrived in the region in 1540, they found the Navajos, who were new migrants, and the Acoma, Hopi, and Zuni Pueblo Indians, whose occupation extends back to antiquity.
www.ci.gallup.nm.us /shst.htm   (260 words)

  
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The complaint against Gallup and the state Office of Elections was filed on Sept. 24 by the Hawaii Republican Party alleging that he is not a citizen and is not eligible to vote or hold public office in the United States.
Gallup, a Democrat, has previously stated that he believed he was a citizen and eligible to vote and run for office because of his Native American ancestry.
A challenge to Gallup’s eligibility as a voter was filed earlier in September with the Maui County clerk by Kihei Republican voter and retired New York lawmaker Steve Riford.
www.mauinews.com /story.aspx?id=1945   (371 words)

  
 New Mexico Business Journal: Gallup: frontier town - includes related article
Gallup, established in 1881 as a railhead, may well be the last real outpost of the Frontier West.
While Gallup is changing, so has Sunwest Bank in Gallup which was a financial institution with $52 million in assets in 1980 and now is approaching the $165 million mark, 60 percent of the local market share.
Gallup's population of about 20,000 today is almost triple the 7,000 population figure during the area's coal mining heyday.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m5092/is_n11_v17/ai_14557610   (1296 words)

  
 Gallup Study Indicates Actively Disengaged Workers Cost U.S. Hundreds of Billions Each Year
Gallup's research for its management consulting clients consistently shows that actively disengaged workers tend to be significantly less productive, report being less loyal to their companies, are less satisfied with their personal lives, and are more stressed and insecure about their work than their colleagues.
Gallup developed a proprietary formula for measuring the level of employee engagement from the information in its database, which contains survey results and performance data from its consulting work with clients around the world.
Gallup's core expertise is in measuring and understanding human attitudes and behavior.
gmj.gallup.com /content/?ci=466   (947 words)

  
 Gallup. Pioneers in investigation of markets and opinion   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
GALLUP started working in Spain more than 35 years ago, and it is therefore one of the pioneer companies here in the field of social and market research.
On the basis of acquired experience, GALLUP continues to respond to the demands of this form of working, and reacts to new demands by reinforcing its technical team and incorporating new technologies.
In GALLUP we wish to be able to respond to new demands without any change to our working philosophy: transparency in all processes, work that is tailored to customer needs and service that is customised to suit individual demands, ensuring complete customer satisfaction within economic limits that suit the current competitive market.
www.gallup.es /ing/cono_ing.asp   (178 words)

  
 Gallup, City in New Mexico - DesertUSA
Gallup lies on Interstate 40 (Historic Route 66), 139 miles west of Albuquerque and 25 miles east of the Arizona border.
Gallup is also the largest Indian center in the Southwest and the ceremonial capital of Native America.There are many American peoples in the Gallup/Four Corners region.
Rail workers soon began "going to Gallup" to collect their pay, and when the tracks were finally laid through the area in 1881, the new settlement was formally named after the paymaster.
www.desertusa.com /Cities/nm/gallup.html   (1086 words)

  
 Gallup yields AD position   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Gallup said he and President Freeland reached a mutual decision that the two jobs were too much for one person to perform effectively.
Gallup enjoyed his first winning season last fall, leading the Huskies to a 6-5 mark.
As athletics director, Gallup instituted a five-year restructuring plan aimed at bringing the department into complete gender equity compliance by the year 2000 while improving the performance of the varsity sports programs.
www.voice.neu.edu /970109/gallup.html   (241 words)

  
 Gallup, George Horace on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Gallup's polls are most famous for preelection surveys.
Since then the Gallup poll has had a good record, except for its prediction in 1948 that Thomas Dewey would defeat President Truman.
Humpback and fin whaling in the Gulf of Maine from 1800 to 1918.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/G/Gallup-G1.asp   (287 words)

  
 New Mexico Business Journal: Gallup New Mexico
Since the Gallup Alcohol Crisis Center opened its doors to clients, the number of street drunks has dwindled from a high that flirted with 400 down to a handful of 30 or 40 who still refuse all offers of assistance.
"Gallup has seen so many booms in the past that they're hard to count, but when you look at the significance of what took place from the perspective of the entire community, the overall effects were questionable.
The rough-and-tumble era of a coal mining town was assigned to the colorful annals of history along with the steady stream of company paychecks, but Gallup held on to the foothold it had carved on the banks of the Rio Puerco.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m5092/is_n6_v18/ai_15540899   (1575 words)

  
 The First Measured Century: Program: Segment 7 - The Gallup Poll
Now, George Gallup did not invent the modern public opinion poll, but he is the man who legitimized it, thanks in part to a dramatic bet.
Gallup sent out hundreds of interviewers across the country, each of whom was given quotas for different types of respondents; so many middle-class urban women, so many lower-class rural men, and so on.
ALEC GALLUP (The Gallup Organization): I think he'd still say, if he were around, he'd say although it's being overdone now, you still have to know where the public is. And this is what a democracy is about.
www.pbs.org /fmc/segments/progseg7.htm   (1140 words)

  
 TAYLOR NELSON SOFRES - Gallup: Tv   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Gallup TvMeter’s data are presented in our sophisticated tool InfoSys, which enables detailed analysis and planning of programming and advertising campaigns.
The viewer behaviour – who is watching, which channels, and when – is transmitted to Gallup where the data is checked and processed every night so that clients and users can get fresh TV ratings every day.
Programme controllers use data to improve the range of programmes, the sales personnel at commercial channels fix the price for TV spots based on the TV ratings, and the advertising industry uses the research for planning campaigns on behalf of their customers and to control that the campaigns reach the agreed number of exposures.
www.gallup.dk /englishweb/page.aspx?pageid=16   (163 words)

  
 Legendary Guitarist Cliff Gallup
So modest was Gallup that his wife, Doris, asked that not one word of his days with the Blue Caps be included with his obituary.
Gallup was uncomfortable when fans of his "rockabilly" style of playing ‚ there are still many devotees in the British Isles - called to chat or wrote to request autographs.
Cliff Gallup, a maintenance man in the Chesapeke city schools for nearly 30 years, was the same Cliff Gallup who was on the cutting edge of rock 'n' roll.
www.rockabillyhall.com /gvCliffGallup.html   (2981 words)

  
 Gallup on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Dodging the questions: Phi Delta Kappa and Gallup were given the opportunity to defend their poll.
Gallup Sues Proudfoot Consulting for Six Counts of Trademark Violations; Use of Phony Research by Proudfoot Alleged.
Simon Gallup, of The Cure, performs at the HFStival 2004 on Saturday, May 22, 2004 at RFK Stadium in Washington, D.C. The day-long concert was sponsored by WHFS 99.1 in Washington.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/G/Gallup.asp   (583 words)

  
 MyDD :: Gallup's Shame
Gallup, even without their new poll, is without question the top outlying polling organization in this election.
However, I do know that Gallup's polls are connected to the largest news outlets in America of any poll, both in terms of print (USA Today is the largest circulation newspaper in the country) and cable news (CNN has more viewers than Fox, they just watch for shorter periods of time).
Gallup's likely voter model differs from those of other pollsters, and their sampling and weighting approach may also differ.
www.mydd.com /story/2004/9/17/03529/1649   (2289 words)

  
 TAYLOR NELSON SOFRES - Gallup: Gallup Consumer Services
Gallup Consumer services have extensive experience in the Energy and Travel businesses which are both areas of intensive market development.
Gallup Consumer services supply the necessary knowledge and insight into the new market conditions and can help ensure optimal planning and the best possible transition to the new market situation with increased competition.
The Gallup Rejsemonitor will become an important tool for decision-makers in the travel business as it provides a mapping of the consumers’ travel behaviour, brand awareness, purchase behaviour, information search, commitment, segmentation, and brand equity.
www.gallup.dk /englishweb/page.aspx?pageid=31   (193 words)

  
 Gallup Works Closely with the Clients
According to the findings of a recent poll conducted by Gallup Pakistan the Pakistani public is undergoing a set of complex emotions.
It is also notable that one third, or 34% of the respondents were of the view that Osama Bin Laden should present himself before a court of law for trial, while 57% disfavoured this idea.
Gallup Pakistan is the Pakistani affiliate of Gallup International.
www.gallup.com.pk /archives/oct15_2001.html   (1133 words)

  
 Mystery Pollster: MoveOn vs. Gallup   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Gallup’s methods are also worthy of scrutiny given the disproportionate attention their surveys receive due to their prominence on CNN and in USAToday.
They say Gallup "refuses to fix a longstanding problem with their likely voter methodology” and imply that weighting by party is the fix, never mind that most of the "other publicly available national likely voter polls” they tout to counter Gallup do no such thing.
Gallup's political polls are, of course, fodder for political commentary and political news.
mysterypollster.typepad.com /main/2004/09/moveon_vs_gallu.html   (3826 words)

  
 Encyclopedia article on George Gallup [EncycloZine]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Gallup was born into a poor farming family in Jefferson, Iowa.
Gallup believed the error was mostly due to ending his polling three weeks before Election Day.
Gallup died of a heart attack at his summer home in Tschingel, a village in the Bernese Oberland of Switzerland.
encyclozine.com /George_Gallup   (421 words)

  
 Washingtonpost.com: What Americans Think
Gallup asked the first question about humankind's origins in November 1978, for a survey sponsored by Christianity Today.
In fact, only one in six college graduates in recent Gallup polls expressed support for Darwinian evolution, while 53 percent favored a "God-directed" evolutionary model and 30 percent were creationists.
The standard Gallup question that produces estimates that 95 percent of Americans believe in God asks respondents, "Do you believe in God, or a universal spirit," the latter phrase added in 1976 to a question that had been asked by Gallup since 1944.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/politics/polls/wat/archive/wat060198.htm   (646 words)

  
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According to the worldwide Gallup International Millennium Survey, most people still stand by the real thing: almost two-thirds of respondents say God is very important in their personal life.
The survey, conducted in 60 countries, which represent 1.25 billion citizens of the world, highlights that the idea of God is very important for the respondents personal life: positive belief scores on average 7.2 points in a scale from one to ten, the latter being the top mark.
The Gallup International Millennium Survey was conducted to assess how many people thought of themselves as being part of a religion, their commitment to it, whether God was important to them and the believers image of Him.
www.gallup-international.com /ContentFiles/millennium15.asp   (1233 words)

  
 The First Measured Century: Timeline: People - Gallup
Gallup used a new kind of public opinion polling method called quota sampling.
- Gallup promised newspapers that were paying to use his survey data that if he didn’t predict the results of the 1936 election more accurately than the prediction of the Literary Digest, Gallup would refund their money.
But Gallup’s sample was more representative of the electorate as a whole.
www.pbs.org /fmc/timeline/pgallup.htm   (178 words)

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