Word: affected
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hospital spokesmen this week said they were uncertain how the increase will affect patient costs, adding that they want to see what transpires at the CRICO meeting...
ABOUT 60 PERCENT SAY NO, 30 percent say yes, and the other 10 percent aren't sure. The question is whether polls affect the outcome of presidential elections, and the experts are divided...
...Polls affect things rather dramatically," says Dan Callegari, Sen. Gary W. Hart's (D-Col.) Manchester, N.H. campaign coordinator. "If you're not showing strength in the polls, then you have to sell your candidate twice as hard. Mondale's campaign theme is that he is doing best in the polls...
Whether or not polls affect the outcome of elections, candidates faring poorly in polls have traditionally sought to discredit them. During the 1968 presidential campaign, when most polls showed Hubert H. Humphrey trailing Richard M. Nixon by a wide margin, Humphrey once called a press conference to change that the Gallup Poll the views of Blacks. More recently, Boston mayoral candidate Melvin H. King complained that he underperformed in polls that failed to include newly registered voters among those surveyed...
WHILE Presidential candidates from both political camps try to woo an often disinterested electorate, they are often oblivious to a group of avid onlookers--foreign governments who recognize the outcome of the U.S. Presidential race could significantly affect their own futures...