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George J. Soete, Evaluating Library Directors, 1998

“I give a very full set of documents to the committee and I feel they pretty much ignore them. The process in general is too much of a popularity contest. Many comments seemed to be simple axe-grinding.”

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Wasatch-Cache National Forest/Alta Ski Area: FINAL EIS, 1997

Comment 171-M-35: Mr. Rob Cruz is quoted in the Desert News article as “We’re responsible for both providing multiple use and being the stewards of the land.” The issue “isn’t a popularity contest but a matter of how best to manage the land for the broadest benefit.” How would a reduction of an environmental asset benefit the broadest segment of users?

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Helena National Forest and Elkhorn Mountains: Oil and Gas Leasing EIS, 1993

Comment—I want to emphasize that multiple use of National Forest System lands must not be subjected to a popularity contest. I am extremely concerned with the Forest Service’s apparent shift in policy which indicates that land use planning is relegated to a voting process. While public statements were made by the agency that planning is not a voting process, the agency also points out that comments are coming in at 28:1 in opposition of oil and gas leasing or 80% of the comments received oppose leasing.

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Chequamegon National Forest, Sunken Camp Area: EIS, 1991

Team duties included lightening the other team members’ attitudes when needed, breaking tense moments, and learning how to walk and talk before the EIS is complete! She’s running already! Meryss will most likely win the popularity contest amongst team members.

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Scholarly Journals at the Crossroads, 1995

Page 177: I do not believe for a minute, even in our absurdly populist age, that a popularity contest and box scores can or will replace the systematic scrutiny administered by editors and referees (imperfect as that is; see bibliography appended to these comments). Powerful electro-bibliometrics analysis is a supplement, not a substitute, for peer review. Page 214: Steven, Who, me? Sorry, you have the wrong guy. I certainly do not recognize anything I ever wrote as implying that “it could all e fought out by a Darwinian popularity contest among readers and commentators of the posted papers and their successive iterations.” All that I ever claimed (and I still claim) is that if we had a continuation of a chaotic system on the net, there would be a Darwinian evolution of some type of peer review. Moreover, given the sped with which everything moves on the Net, such Darwinian evolution would be extremely rapid. Like Paul, I am not satisfied with the present refereeing system, even though I have grown up with a much better one than he has to deal with in his field. That’s why I spent so much time in my essay complaining about the inadequacies of what we have. My point is that we can do better on the Net, with improved tools.

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Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve: Final Environmental Impact Statement, 1988

Management of wilderness cannot just be a popularity contest. For many who seek a true wilderness experience, Glacier Bay has become way too congested already. One in this business must be careful not to give one group of people, park users or not, more weight than another. Rather one must look at the uses and determine whether they can best be accommodated in a park wilderness or elsewhere. The grandchildren of the cruise ship passengers need a place to go, too, to recharge from high-tech impersonal jobs and a high stress job.

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Minnesota’s Double-Barreled Implied Consent Law, 1984

There may be disagreement over the relative severity of, for instance, 90 days of license suspension compared with 48 hours of incarceration. (California’s 1982 law seems to equate them, since upon a driver’s first conviction there is what amounts to an opportunity to choose between them. It will be interesting to see which penalty is voted Most Friendly in the popularity contest. Since California has been a leader in objective evaluation of its traffic safety programs, we may expect to see these alternatives undergo analysis.) However, comparing a quick administrative license revocation with “jail” in general, which can only follow a court trial, is not particularly productive and is somewhat like arguing about whether oil paintings or photographs are “better.” It should be noted that in Minnesota the two kinds of penalty are not mutually exclusive, and as we have noted, both rate high as devoutly to be feared.

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Western Long Island Sound Disposal Site: Environmental Impact Statement, 1982

Dear Mr. Tomey: As I read your latest proposal, it became quite apparent that you are selecting the site more on a popularity contest and economic basis rather than on scientific reasoning. You just continue to pull new proposal sites out of a “hat” ’til one is found that will not create public outcry. Mr. Tomey, this is no way to decide such an important and critical issue. What difference does it make if the spoil site is located north or south of an imaginary state boundary stretched across the Sound? The spoil still ends up going into Long Island Sound! If there is damage done its’ going to affect us all, not just the obliging souls in Connecticut.

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U.S. National Bureau of Standards, Report of the 60th National Conference on Weights and Measures, 1976

At our open session on Monday, I commented that when we reconvened some of you would not be pleased with our decisions. There are a number of issues in which we suspect the views of the Conference are fairly evenly split; thus, we are bound to become unpopular with about fifty percent of you. But we are not here to win a popularity contest, rather we “bit the bullet” and made recommendations which we consider sound.

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U.S. Forest Service, Report on the Proposed Beartooth Wilderness: Custer and Gallatin National Forests, Montana, 1974

Second: I have received back a direct quote made by you to a person here in town that “this is not a popularity contest.” Also, other Forest Service personnel have been quoted similarly. This policy toward public feeling is in direct contradiction to the purpose of the public hearings which you recently held and which were so overwhelmingly in favor of the M.W.A. plan in Billings and Livingston. Your latest proposal book of 2/5/74 and signed by you (on page 3) says, “We welcome your continued interest in the study and would be pleased to receive your comments on this proposal.” The result of the public feeling in the testimony including the 6,000-plus petition names, is clear evidence the public wants the “complete package.” They don’t want a non-wilderness corridor managed for now as unloaded country. They want that corridor closed for all time by connecting the Absaroka with the Beartooth with a unified wilderness, in keeping with true intention of the Wilderness Act.

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Bethany Beach Sewage Treatment Facility: Environmental Impact Statement, 1973

If you were to make a decision on the basis of a popularity contest, you would turn on the green light for the sanitary sewer facilities to be installed at Bethany Beach, Delaware. However, we do not ask you to base your decision solely on the expression of the overwhelming majority. We urge you to consider the growth in Bethany Beach, Delaware, during the past ten years and the projected growth of this area as it relates to water conditions and the health of the people in this fine community.

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Public Hearings on Noise Abatement and Control, 1972

Mr. Burdis: I would like to extend this somewhat. We are form a world very concerned with the behavioral pattern of our society of all ages. As a planner I recognize the density that we are faced with if we are to have any hope at all. We have no choice between saying it’s a popularity contest between the single family house and apartments, we have to go to apartments, but the implications of this from an acoustical viewpoint are interesting, and from the social behavior viewpoint. Would you like to remark on this whole question of housing our poor and underprivileged and its effect on the behavioral pattern as it relates to the design and structure of the buildings.

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Catalog of Copyright Entries, 1942

Remember the guy who won this popularity contest? © Nov. 15, 1941; AA 388740.

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Catalog of Copyright Entries, 1941

Popularity contest, 1. 2. © Nov. 15, 1940. 49583, 49586.

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Catalog of Copyright Entries, 1923

Buffalo Evening Times. Buffalo times announces a gigantic popularity contest. (In Buffalo evening times) [16064] © Apr. 20, 1922; 1 c. Apr. 24, 1922; A 640997; Buffalo times, inc., Buffalo. ……. Buffalo Sunday Times. Coupon good for 50 votes in Buffalo times ball team popularity contest. (In Buffalo Sunday times) [16066] © Apr. 23, 1922; 1 c. Apr. 28, 1922; A 640998; Buffalo times inc., Buffalo.

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Catalog of Copyright Entries, 1954

Page 320: McCuistion, John L. Queen of industry popularity contest. 2 1. © John L. McCuistion; 20Feb53; A82343. Page 435: Queen of Industry Popularity Contest. A82343. See McCuistion, John L.