Some big companies, often seen as profit-hungry behemoths, ranked well in the survey, too.
And 85% of Australian respondents said they were in good health, well above the survey average of 69%.
One company to come out well from the survey was the third-largest U.S. wireless carrier, Sprint Nextel Corp.
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He said such institutions scored particularly well in the survey of employers.
Nitesh Patel, an economist for the Bank of Scotland, explained that Shetland had performed consistently well in the survey in recent years, across a range of indicators.
Nevertheless, he bellied up to the microphone by himself and treated us to a brief but well-rounded survey of his expansive catalog: a selection from the Eban and Charley soundtrack, one song apiece from the albums Get Lost and Distortion, and a number originally composed for the audio book of Lemony Snicket's The Hostile Hospital.
Highlights from the survey as well as the full report and questionnaire form have been completed.
People living in Wales are the most dissatisfied in the UK, the first national survey of well-being suggests.
The Consumer Price Index comes out on Friday along with the Empire State Manufacturing survey as well as industrial production.
It includes an all-too-narrow survey of well-known brands and ignores the independents.
In general, the survey was well received and people were willing to talk, although a few showed reluctance to answer some questions because of a lack of awareness about particular issues.
Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa in their great book Academically Adrift have taken data from a respectable indicator of critical thinking and problem solving skills, the Collegiate Learning Assessment, as well as the National Survey of Student Engagement and have concluded, roughly, that typically students neither work very hard nor learn very much.
"It is now undergoing a survey, and if all is well, it will travel to Holyhead for a full dive survey, " said a spokesperson for the Coastguard in Liverpool.
The Tory former chancellor Lord Howe of Aberavon added: "It is well known that the Ordnance Survey is a world-class national mapping organisation and national treasure".
The council's reasons for rejecting planning permission were doubts over figures in a traffic survey, as well as the large scale of the development and the loss of open space and amenities.
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The iPhone 4S has also scored higher on customer satisfaction front according to a survey with 77% of the owners said that they are very satisfied with iPhone 4S compared to 72% of the iPhone 4 owners ( iPhone 4S Beats iPhone 4 in Customer Survey, Augurs Well for Holiday Sales).
What the survey shows is how well those European companies that have made it have done, surviving on what in comparison to U.S. startups are if not starvation rations, then a diet of tuna sandwiches and value yogurt.
The survey had been "extremely well supported... even in the most built-up areas where you might not expect people to watch birds, " Mr Bashford added.
Egypt did particularly well on the improvement scale in the latest survey.
The survey does contain other questions as well, but stocks surged primarily because of how 100 executives answered that lead question.
He throws in all the reputable polls (determined by their history), plus many of the other non-poll based theories on who wins elections (such as economic and survey data), whips it well to remove bias and various other nasty bits, and figures out a good set of odds for each state.
Cupid is alive and well in the American workplace, according to the survey, despite the down economy.
Other indicators of economic well-being support the notion that the household survey paints a more accurate picture of the labor market.
The exhibition is bursting with innovative technology solutions, well logging solutions, mud storage solutions, downhole survey solutions, and, if you look hard enough, some financing solutions.
Thursday we get the jobless claims and Friday we get the widely anticipated jobs report as well as the preliminary University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment survey for December.
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Ronnie Smith, general secretary of Scotland's largest teaching union, the EIS, said he was "well aware" of the issues raised in the survey, while pointing out that deprivation had a major impact on pupil performance.
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