Word: opinions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tempting to see these developments as the handiwork of politicians and government bureaucrats. But this is hardly an accurate view of what has transpired. In fact, the shift away from international cooperation reflects much deeper changes in American public opinion. According to public opinion polls, the interest of Americans in international matters steadily declined throughout the 1970s. By the early 1980s, only one international problem--defense policy and the threat of war--ranked among the ten issues that Americans considered most important. In 1986, the foreign policy goal most important to the public was protecting the jobs of American workers...
...with an unexpectedly strong showing in elections for local councils. Some 27% of Britain's registered voters, or about 12 million people, cast ballots to fill 12,280 seats throughout Britain -- except in London, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Political pros called the bellwether vote the "world's biggest public opinion poll." The returns seemed to remove any doubt that Thatcher was poised to hit the hustings...
...have put final touches on their national platforms. In the House of Commons, Speaker Bernard Weatherill wryly appealed for "less euphoria." Eager Labor officials, out of office for eight years, announced a new campaign slogan: "The country's crying out for change." Unfortunately for both Labor and the Alliance, opinion polls do not substantiate the sentiment...
...first public response to the Herald's charges -- delivered, appropriately enough, before a convention of newspaper publishers meeting in New York City -- Hart blasted the paper's surveillance and said it raised "searching questions" about journalistic responsibility. Much of the public seemed to agree. The Miami Herald's own opinion survey showed that 63% of its readers felt that press coverage of Hart's personal life had been excessive. Reporters looking for Hart's alleged paramour Donna Rice at her rented suburban Miami condominium early last week discovered instead a band of angry neighbors. "Oh, you press!" snapped one woman...
According to a December poll by the Opinion Research Corporation, the percentage of Americans who think rising costs will put higher education out of the reach of most Americans rose from 77 percent in 1985 to 82 percent last year...