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...competition was not what these bankers wanted--competition would destroy their monopoly on the lucrative student loan market. They quickly began to mount a campaign against direct student lending. One of their attempts to defeat the new system was to turn public opinion against it. This was done by sponsoring intentionally biased polls and placing dishonest editorials in newspapers such as The Washington Times. One of the most distorted polls was conducted by Frank Luntz, a conservative pollster with a history of ethical bankruptcy...
Nickinello is optimistic about his chances for success, pointing to the defeat of a similar ordinance in neighboring Somerville, in which Ackerly collected $130,000 in damages...
Like raccoons, wild turkeys are not really a wilderness animal. They are an edge-of-civilization critter. Deep snow and deep forest defeat them. They gobble insects in the warm months, occasionally in the median strips of rural interstate highways. But they get through winters, or don't, foraging for barberries, rose hips, wild apples, sumac, juniper, sedges and fern. What they really like is corn wastage at winter-bound dairy farms and sunflower seeds policed from beneath suburban bird feeders...
...expected to vote in favor. But the opposition is strong in the many rural communities. Many farmers are concerned that their farms will go to the women. The church, of course, has been very vocally opposed to the referendum." The last vote on divorce in Ireland went down to defeat in 1986, by a margin of 63 percent to 37 percent...
...DOWN EASTERS Maine's voters handily defeat an anti-gay rights proposition...