Word: mori
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...rival ITV channel an interview about his grandmother rather than the BBC. It turned out, however, that the interview had been allotted purely on the basis of a rotation system, and that the film was pooled and available to all. Just the same, said Robert Worcester, chairman of the MORI polling organization, "a big chunk of the British public believes the BBC has let the side down...
...decisiveness and capacity to lead. Now the task of standing shoulder to shoulder with George W. Bush risks turning Blair into a contortionist. As Bush marches with apparent enthusiasm toward a war with Iraq, the British public is grabbing Blair by the ankles and saying, "Slow down." A new MORI poll for TIME shows a sharp drop in public approval of Blair's handling of the response to Sept. 11, from 71% in November to 52% now. Only 34% of Britons think their government would be right to join the Americans in stepping up military action against Iraq; 56% think...
Stickers on the sidewalk and lampposts advertise obscure bands of the Boston music scene—Zippergirl, Soltero, Mori Stylez. Some of these groups play at O’Brien’s, an Allston neighborhood bar on Harvard...
...Tanaka; Koizumi's backpedaling makes him look like a wimp - and a carbon copy of all the losers who preceded him in office. Even more dispiriting is his most recent choice of confidant, none other than his hapless predecessor, the most unpopular Prime Minister Japan has ever had, Yoshiro Mori. "This is the beginning of the betrayal to the nation by Koizumi," declared veteran political writer Makoto Sataka. "The secret of his popularity was based on the fact that he doesn't make conventional judgments. Now he has adopted the conventional...
Although most media have focused on a hard-core fringe calling for armed struggle against America, the overwhelming majority of Europe's Muslims see their religion as a moderate one. A survey carried out by the Mori agency for Eastern Eye, Britain's biggest selling Asian newspaper, shows that 87% of the Muslims polled are loyal to Britain, even though 64% oppose the U.S.-led strikes against Afghanistan...