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...embarking on an ambitious new kind of political poll. For the TIME/CNN Election Monitor, pollsters from Yankelovich Partners have 4,787 registered voters, an especially large sample that permits a high degree of accuracy. Between now and the 1996 election they will return to those same individuals to chart the fluctuation of their views. At each juncture TIME and CNN reporters will also talk to some of them in greater detail to see what's on their minds and how it affects their judgment of the candidates...
...1870s Henry Adams wrote that all you have to do to disprove Darwin's theory of evolution is chart the course of the American presidency from George Washington to Ulysses Grant. Downhill Darwin: a century later the process would yield a choice between a south Georgia peanut farmer and a washed-up Hollywood actor...
Holsteins are hardworking Danish cows who make it possible for well-disciplined families to earn a living from ground not good enough to grow corn or soybeans. Dairying is not a sentimental line of work, however, and a cow's productivity chart hangs by the stall where she can see it: she knows that when her output declines she's dead meat; retraining will not be an option. Dogs and cats, when hunting became too hard, retrained as house pets, but a large hoofy animal that chews its own vomit will never be welcome in the American home...
...garnered seem to indicate a conscious choice by black males to undergo a marked change in behavior. In the words of the march's mastermind, Louis Farrakhan, Minister of the Nation of Islam: "As the sons of proud people we are coming together and moving forward to chart the course for our future as responsible heads of our families; to reclaim and build our neighborhoods; to unify our families; and to save our children who will lead us into the next millennium...
That amount was almost $20,000 less than the average research university president, whose median earnings were $295,140, and less than half of Boston University President John R. Silber's chart-topping...