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General Election 2001 : Constituency Polls — How Not To Do It
Today's Daily Record carries polling results from six marginal seats in Scotland, and compares the results with those that it published in the same six marginal seats last week; both polls were conducted by Scottish Opinion. All very well, except that the first poll interviewed only 744 respondents in total (an average of 124 per constituency), and today's interviewed 911 (average about 152).
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Tory 'Meltdown'?
Three weeks today the country will go to the polling booths and elect the next government. Never before has the outcome seemed so certain. So far nine polls with fieldwork taken after the announcement of the date of the general election have been published. All nine have projected seat calculations showing an increase in the Labour majority in the House of Commons over all other parties.
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Petrol Buyers Would Boycott Esso
A newly published MORI poll for the Stop Esso Campaign shows 53 percent of petrol buyers would boycott Esso because of the company's attempts to block action on global warming. Figures for Esso's existing customers are virtually identical. A telephone survey by Greenpeace of leading supermarkets revealed that ASDA, Tesco and Morrisons do not supply Esso fuels, Safeway's does supply Esso fuels and Sainsbury's refuse to reveal its suppliers.
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Retail Therapy? Not At The Touch Of A Button
Internet shopping does not provide the feelgood benefit - or impulse sales - of the in-store experience, according to new study.
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Suits You, Madam? Silent Salesman Is Best For Bra Sales
New study reveals the vital statistics of the lingerie shopper.
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General Election 2001 : Comparing The Parties
The answers to three questions included on the MORI survey being published in The Times tomorrow reveal a good deal about the public attitudes to the state of the parties, and go some way to explaining the cavernous gap that still exists between the parties (and which, indeed, may even have widened slightly in the last week).
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Issues Don't Count (As Much As They Should)
Politicians and pundits alike decry that 'this election should be about the issues'. Yet personalities intrude. In the four-sided tetrahedron that drives my model of voting behaviour, 'values' count for most, as roughly 80% of the public have their mind made up before any election is called, and most of them don't change the habits of a lifetime, in the aggregate.
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Research Shows That Small Companies Need To Invest More In Their People
Small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) claim that staff are their most important asset but this is not reflected in their actions, according to a new research report to be launched on May 16, 2001 by businesshr, a specialist human resources advisory service for SMEs.