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Age Discrimination At Work
People who suffer discrimination at work are more likely to be a victim because of their age than any other factor, including race or gender — according to new research from the MORI Social Research Institute.
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Cross Border Shopping
A third (34%) of UK consumers have bought goods or services from abroad in the past 12 months and of these three-quarters (75%) have bought something from EU countries, according to a new survey conducted by the MORI Social Research Institute.
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Attitudes To America And Americans
Americans are more popular in Britain than at any time in the recent past, new research from the MORI Telephone Surveys omnibus has found. Four in five of the British public, 81%, agree that "I like Americans as people", a substantial increase from the 69% who agreed in 1989 and 1991 and the 66% who said the same back in 1986. Only 11% disagreed.
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Air Travel Growth: Conditional Support
Most people in Britain believe there will be a need to increase the capacity of the country's airports over the next 30 years, according to new research by MORI.
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Europe: The Impact Of Asthma
Parents of asthmatic children across Europe say their child is experiencing increasingly negative feelings, like fear and unhappiness, due to asthma. In a survey conducted by MORI in France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy and Spain, many parents of asthmatic children say their child's quality of life has declined over the past three years.
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Consuming Passions
For many years I've been an interested observer of people power. Who are the 'movers and shakers' of British Society? What is their profile, how do they influence others, and what do they read. My first exposition of this interest was in 1972, when the long lamented magazine New Society printed an early article of mine, "The Hidden Activist", which examined what I termed the socio-political activists (S-PAs) in Britain who I defined as that c. 10% of the public who tended by their actions to stand out from the crowd, to be elected officers of clubs or groups, make speeches and write letters to editors, stand for public office and otherwise take part in an active way in order to influence the course of British political events.
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Culture and the British public
Only one in three people in Britain (37%) feel cultural events are designed with them in mind, according to a survey by MORI. The project was commission by Cardiff 2008, the team leading the city's bid to be the European Capital of Culture in 2008.
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Attitudes towards Asylum Seekers for 'Refugee Week'
A poll by MORI Social Research Institute, and published on the eve of Refugee Week, tried to ascertain the British public's attitudes to refugees and asylum seekers, their knowledge about refugees and their perception of the media coverage.
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Many Councillors 'Divorced' From The Electorate
Two thirds of people have never met their local councillor and a similar number cannot name one, according to a new poll published today, on the eve of this May's local elections.