"Occupy" is the top word of 2011, according to the Global Language Monitor's annual global survey of the English language.

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Gallup's Balkan Monitor, for example, released a survey in June that showed a drop in those wanting to emigrate in every state in the west Balkans.

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Volunteers survey the lizards each year to monitor their population and distribution.

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And another survey - the UK Business Confidence Monitor - found confidence improved in the last three months, suggesting the UK will return to growth in the April-June quarter.

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Forbes contributor Steve Denning recently wrote two pieces, one about the most hated jobs, using data from another jobs website, CareerBliss, and a piece about the supposedly happiest jobs from a Christian Science Monitor slide show about a four-year-old General Social Survey by the National Organization for Research at the University of Chicago.

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That news comes from a 2, 017-person survey funded by the online security software maker McAfee, which is pushing a product that helps parents monitor their kids online.

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