Word: gallup
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...goal of a Thatcher government would be to limit union power by passing legislation to outlaw closed union shops and rule out secondary picketing in which striking workers can disable factories not directly involved in disputes. Many Britons sympathize; a Gallup poll showed that 84% of citizens felt that national trade unions were too powerful. It was their lowest popularity rating in 40 years of polling...
...They tried to do it in '71. They tried in '75, I was elected both times." Still, the city's black voters have grown to 34% of the total electorate, and even Rizzo realizes that he faces an uphill battle. The most recent Gallup poll has him trailing nearly 2 to 1. But the mayor is confident. Said he: "We're going to win by 50,000. Philadelphia wouldn't be the same without Frank Rizzo...
...there is evidence on the other side as well. One of the year's most widely denounced Supreme Court rulings-Zurcher vs. Stanford Daily-which authorized some police searches of newsrooms, has apparently not touched off the feared wave of such raids. In addition, a Gallup poll this month indicates that Americans support a reporter's right to protect confidential sources by a margin of 3 to 1, more than in similar surveys in 1972 and 1973. Still, more and more lawyers are using subpoenas of reporters as gambits in criminal trials. "They may even think they have...
...easy. The middle-aged occupant had once had a multimillion dollar turquoise business, but he'd lost it all through some bad breaks, including his back and left leg, and had traded in his 1976 Jag for a 1960 Rambler. He took me to a gas station in Gallup, where two Mexicans in a pickup truck let me ride in the back and either watch New Mexico fade away backwards, or, if I turned around, to watch the driver's t-shirt, which contained the local folk wisdom of "Four Wheelers Eat More Bush...
...Middle East summit talks at Camp David, and those ringing cheers were backed up by new polls that showed him making dramatic gains in the past week. According to a CBS survey, popular approval of his Administration climbed from 38% in June to 51% last week, while a Gallup poll rose from 39% in August to 56%. This shift testifies to the mercurial nature of public opinion, at least as measured by the surveys. One triumph can cause a President's rating to soar, one setback can start it plummeting again...