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This week's poll is the tenth done for TIME this year by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman, which conducts polling and market research for a variety of corporations, business associations and publications. Since January we have shared our polls with Cable News Network, which broadcasts the results on its 24-hour news shows. Observes Zintl: "If you can get a measure of public sentiment, and some of the reasons behind it, that can be very valuable to the reader. It can add evidence to what we're finding out anecdotally...
...last month's upper-house elections, Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party groped for ways to restore its scandal-ridden reputation. Last week the majority of the party threw its support behind a single candidate for Prime Minister, Toshiki Kaifu, 58, but it is doubtful whether his selection has done much to restore the party's honor...
...team members, twelve of whom are laboring in Jerusalem, point out that their task is difficult and must be done with precision. For example, one of the caves contained 15,000 fragments that had to be pieced together like jigsaw puzzles into 516 scrolls. Harvard University's John Strugnell, head of the group since 1987, says fund-raising difficulties and the Arab-Israeli wars slowed progress. He admits that his deadline of 1997 is only an "intelligent guess," not a "promise," and that work could stretch years beyond that...
...foot dragger is the elusive J.T. Milik of the National Center for Scientific Research in Paris. He is a former Roman Catholic priest who has been assigned to prepare 50 or more photographic plates of the documents. Says Milik unrepentantly: "The world will see the manuscripts when I have done the necessary work." Castigating the "unhealthy curiosity" of complaining historians, he nonetheless says he has assigned two U.S. colleagues to help with some of his scrolls...
...consummate deals outside legal market hours "on the curb." Many brokers even "busted" losing trades by simply destroying evidence of the transaction. Such practices represent "more stupidity than conspiracy," says a Board of Trade official. "It's scratch my back and I'll scratch yours, but it's done with the customer's money. You might as well have a gun and a mask...