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Skills Shortage Is Top Concern For British Business
Britain's business leaders regard skills shortages as the most important problem facing their company today, according to the findings of the 2000 MORI annual survey of Britain's Captains of Industry. For the first time ever, this issue is of more concern than regulation and competition with one in three - three times as many as in 1999 - mentioning it as their major preoccupation.
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Joining The Euro
Q1-3 How likely or unlikely is it that people in Britain will regularly use a single European currency and coinage in 2005, 2010, 2015?
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A Snapshot Of Life In London
Most Londoners like their city, its diversity, cultural facilities and economic opportunities, according to the latest MORI research released today. But they remain concerned about congested streets, public transport, crime rates and the cost of living.
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The Polls In 2000
An editorial in the Daily Telegraph last month (5 December) suggested that MORI's polls in The Times systematically under-represent Conservative strength, and further that this is because they are conducted face-to-face rather than by telephone. The article cited several arguments in support of its case which were based on factual errors. We wrote to the paper correcting these errors, but it failed to publish our letter. It is not true as they alleged that face-to-face polls tend to find lower Conservative support than telephone polls. Nor is it true that MORI's polls find systematically lower Conservative support than those of the other polling companies. But since some of these misconceptions seem to be widespread, and the Telegraph was only echoing the wishful thinking which seems to be still entrenched in some corners of Conservative Central Office, it is perhaps time for a systematic review of the evidence, taking the whole of the year 2000 as our basis.
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Lung Cancer - Invisible Syndrome
SEVEN out of ten people in Britain believe that smokers who develop lung cancer have brought the disease on themselves, according to a MORI poll for The Cancer Research Campaign.
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82% Of People Think British Companies Should Be Legally Required To Consult
More than eight out of ten (82%) people believe that companies should be legally required to discuss their closure plans with their workforce, according to a MORI poll for the Transport and General Workers' Union, the UK's largest manufacturing union. The poll is released on the day T&G General Secretary Bill Morris attacked "the unacceptable face of corporate decision making we have seen from Vauxhall in Luton, Ford in Dagenham and Rover in Longbridge," where workers found out about factory closures from the media.
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Political Polling In Britain - The History
Dr Henry Durant, the man who introduced opinion polling to Britain, once described it as "the stupidest of professions" - for who else is stupid enough to publish a prediction on Thursday morning that may be proved wrong on Thursday evening?