1.   Goguen, for instance, asks her clients to fill out a lengthy food preference survey before she begins cooking for them.

2.   Last week the possibility of Lamm and Perot competing head to head was foreshadowed by the text of a preference survey that is being sent to party supporters.

3.   Presidential preference surveys among GOP primary voters generally show Specter at or near the bottom of prospective candidates.

4.   Secrecy surrounding the firms that will oversee preference surveys from respondents will make that task all the more difficult, they say.

5.   Under still-evolving rules for choosing a nominee, the Reform Party plans to keep secret the results of a preference survey now being conducted by mail.